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Re: structure type specifier
- To: cfry@OZ.AI.MIT.EDU
- Subject: Re: structure type specifier
- From: "Larry_Masinter.PARC"@Xerox.COM
- Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1987 20:20:00 -0000
- Cc: Common-Lisp@sail.stanford.EDU
- In-reply-to: cfry%OZ.AI.MIT:EDU:Xerox's message of 7 Dec 87 23:40
- Sender: "Larry_Masinter.PARC"@Xerox.COM
Its legit and even good design practice to treat every data type as if it might
be a structure. If Xerox Common Lisp had STRUCTUREP, it would be true of every
object. (Of course, some objects, like fixnums, don't have slots and are
"preallocated".)