Re: XML: The good, the bad, and the ugly
From: Laconic2 <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:37:09 -0400
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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:37:09 -0400
Message-ID: <ZK-dnXLgWYjvYencRVn-pA_at_comcast.com>
"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
news:kC1dd.266502$MQ5.256565_at_attbi_s52...
If I had read the following, I would have skipped my previous response to
you.
> But nothing is checked until runtime, so there are no type-based
Hey, if your operands can be of any type, then your operators had better be
> guarantees you can make about a well-formed LISP program.
> This isn't a good idea for data management, although there is
> a small but vocal minority that appears to think it's a good
> idea for writing programs. (I happen to think it's not a good
> idea for writing programs, either.)