From: Alex Mizrahi
Subject: quote with multiple arguments
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:33:03 +0000
Message-ID: <36q54fF5512hfU1@individual.net>

Hello, All!

interesting, why it's possible to call quote with multiple arguments, like
(quote a b c) in some implementations (Lispworks and ACL, for example)?
(they return only first A)
maybe checks are omited as optimization?

With best regards, Alex Mizrahi.

From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: quote with multiple arguments
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 02:41:44 +0000
Message-ID: <barmar-A873EA.21414407022005@comcast.dca.giganews.com>

In article <···············@individual.net>,
 "Alex Mizrahi" <········@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, All!
> 
> interesting, why it's possible to call quote with multiple arguments, like
> (quote a b c) in some implementations (Lispworks and ACL, for example)?
> (they return only first A)
> maybe checks are omited as optimization?

Yes.

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Barry Margolin, ······@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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