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Problems with Lisp
4 points by nickb on Jan 25, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



In conclusion, I really don't understand what the problem is here.

I think it's just that this:

  (setf (gethash "foo" *hash*) "OH HAI")
is verbose and funny-looking compared to:

  hash["foo"] = "OH HAI"


Note, most of the discussion is taking place on this duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=449345




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