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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 15:21:32 GMT
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In article <Pine.A32.3.90.940909121816.35254P-100000@swim5.eng.sematech.org> "William D. Gooch" <goochb@swim5.eng.sematech.org> writes:
>On 9 Sep 1994, Bruno Haible wrote:
>
>> Lenny Gray <lenngray@netcom.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Are these numbers right?  I've seriously used GCL and CLISP myself and
>> 
>> Of course these numbers are right....
>
>"Right" or wrong, they are meaningless and should be ignored in the 
>absence of additional information.  See below.
>
>> Here's the code, if you want to convince yourself:

>>       (dotimes (i n) (setf (svref perm1 i) i))

BTW, you can't just use dotimes even if n is declared to be a fixnum.
I think this is explained in the comp.lang.lisp FAQ.  If not, it was
explained in the list of "pitfalls" I posted a while back and perhaps
should update?

-- jeff

