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Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
>    From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
>    Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 06:30:54 +0200
> 
>    I was told to avoid setq when I learned lisp :-).
> 
> but whoever told you that was doing a setq on your brain,
> so why would you trust that advice w/o question?

It was functional programming that we used Lisp for (never reassign variables, 
among other things), so it kind of stuck.  And there was questions asked at the 
time :-).

	Jan D.