Re: Why not a setf-able NIL ?

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

Indeed. Personnaly, I'm quite worried by the hardcoding of neutral
charge into neutron. Why are we not able to rebind all the neutrons
in the universe to some charge? Try to imagine what would happen if
suddenly all the neutrons were -2e.

I also like the following quote:

" -----Direct Quote from the Fortran manual for Xerox computers

The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants;
instead of referring to PI as 3.141592653589797, at every appearance,
the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement, and
used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies
modifying the program, should the value of PI change."

Granted, it's only bad wording but still funny. :)
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