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boole
- To: Guy.Steele at CMU-10A
 
- Subject: boole
 
- From: Scott E. Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>
 
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1982 02:48:00 -0000
 
- Cc: common-lisp at SU-AI,  Earl A. Killian <Killian at MIT-MULTICS>
 
You guys are kidding, right?  BOOLE is a hideous function that was only
kept around so that rasterop harware and suchlike could be used in a
direct way from within Lisp.  What possible purpose could served by
extending it to N values?  It is not a stated goal of Common Lisp to
provide an interpretation for all possible extensions to all possible
functions.
-- Scott