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RESTART
- To: Kent M. Pitman <KMP at MIT-MC>
- Subject: RESTART
- From: Scott E. Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1982 22:45:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp at SU-AI
Well, as long as we're being apalled (or even appalled, for those of you
who are into traditional spelling), I am apalled by the concept of
"malicious edits". If your system (meaning the combination of code and
social conventions) allows such things, fix the system, not the
programming language. I would hate to think what Common Lisp would look
like if we were to eliminate every feature that might tempt some idiot
to stick in a line of unclean code. This is a powerful langauge, and it
cannot possibly be made vandal-proof. There might be some good
arguments for adding a RESTARTABLE form, but this isn't one.
-- Scott