Re: [Sbcl-devel] Making STRING foldable

[Paul K. <pv...@pv...>]

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> List could be implemented as:
>
>       (defun list (&rest list) list)
>
> which technically doesn't return a fresh list.
[...]
> If you want to ensure a fresh list, you will have to call COPY-LIST.

You're welcome to move this conversation elsewhere. Standard compliance 
is necessary, but not sufficient. No one wins if programmers have to 
write code like (copy-list (list x y z)).

Paul Khuong