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Bad to hang properties off keywords to install their semantics
- To: Rem@IMSSS
- Subject: Bad to hang properties off keywords to install their semantics
- From: Doug Cutting <DOUG@SU-CSLI.ARPA>
- Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1985 05:17:00 -0000
- Cc: BSG%SCRC-STONY-BROOK.ARPA@SCORE, COMMON-LISP%SU-AI@SCORE, Doug@SU-CSLI.ARPA
- In-reply-to: Msg of 5 Dec 1985 00:20-PST from Rem at IMSSS
Date: Thursday, 5 December 1985 00:20-PST
From: Rem at IMSSS
[...] it takes a long time each time you use that
keyword for the function to scan down the keyword's property list
looking for the one item that tells this particular function what to
do while ignoring all the other properties that are used by other
functions. [...]
This seems like an implementation issue and has little to do with
what the language standard should be.