Re: What's so great about lisp?

Joe Marshall wrote:
> No, I wanted a warning that the output isn't sorted.

Ah, ok. I don't contest that. However, the question is "how likely are you
to write those kinds of errors"? I don't think we can answer question that
to anyone's satisfaction.

> Yeah, I expect a warning that predicate isn't used, and of course I
> can't redefine the built-in sort, but that's not the point.

You don't even get a warning in OCaml BTW.

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