Re: Learning Lisp THE WEB WAY!

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:21:52 -0000, Kyle McGivney <KyleMcG@xxxxxxxxx> tried to
confuse everyone with this message:

<1>> (defun foo (x y) (print x))
::
; While compiling FOO:
Warning: Variable Y is never used.

I haven't RTFM but is there any particular reason you chose to compile
rather than eval?

Rather than? It does compile and eval your expression too. Several Lisp
implementations, including SBCL and apparently Allegro, on which BioBike
is built, automatically compile any code by default.

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