Michael Heerdegen writes: > Christopher Dimech writes: > >> It is just political nonsense pushed into software. An introductory >> textbook for beginning undergraduates is never serious. And even >> if it was serious, morality does not work. Either it is equivalent, >> or it is not. There is no morality in it. > > I was not familiar with that term (doesn't appear in German) but > understood the doc perfectly. OTOH, if the text said > > This is not equivalent to (setf PLACE (cons NEWELT PLACE)) > > I would not have understood (and it is _not_ equivalent). > > Until someone comes with a better wording we should stop the > Stefan-bashing. Read it as "equivalent in some sense", and good. It's > a text, ok, not a computer program controlling the city traffic. > > Michael. > > This should be: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- This is almost equivalent to (setf PLACE (cons NEWELT PLACE)), except that PLACE is evaluated only once (after NEWELT). --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Anyway, I enjoy occasionally finding things like "morally equivalent" in Emacs. -- Akib Azmain Turja Find me on Mastodon at @akib@hostux.social, and on Codeberg (user "akib"). This message is signed by me with my GnuPG key. Its fingerprint is: 7001 8CE5 819F 17A3 BBA6 66AF E74F 0EFA 922A E7F5