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13:16:17
jackdaniel
sbcl has this deadline thingy so it is generally safer than arbitrary interrupts
13:33:05
Shinmera
Well, I guess parachute now lets you cut your fingers off if you're too impatient for a test to finish :)
21:26:53
Nilby
jcowan: Good question. I really don't remember. I assume it must have been one of the PDP8 Lisps on this page http://www.softwarepreservation.net/projects/LISP/other#DECUS_LISP_ I remember it fit on some number of "big" floppies, some of which had the "AI" Eliza and "ML" guess an animal.
21:33:30
Bike
but usually things aren't organized in such a way that you need to force anything to be anything
21:34:05
Nilby
lisp123: There's a number of CL functions that get errors or are undefined for not proper lists, but otherwise it's up to the code your using.
21:39:35
lisp123
benefit of not allowing dotted lists is you don't have to always check if the CDR is a cons
22:13:46
pjb
but since you have to test for null, you can as well test for consp. Then if not consp, you can check for a dotted list with null only on the last cdr.