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Problems with Lisp
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nickb
on Jan 25, 2009
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gruseom
on Jan 25, 2009
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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"
jrockway
on Jan 26, 2009
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Note, most of the discussion is taking place on this duplicate:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=449345
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I think it's just that this:
is verbose and funny-looking compared to: