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Re:CL21: An experimental project redesigning Common Lisp by bsummer4 on Friday February 20, 2015 @06:03PM (#9083688)
nub is widely recognized to be a terrible function; it's not indicative of anything
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Re:CL21: An experimental project redesigning Common Lisp by Retra on Friday February 20, 2015 @08:53PM (#9084330)
It's not? Then I suppose princ is a fine name for a print function.
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Re:CL21: An experimental project redesigning Common Lisp by bsummer4 on Monday February 23, 2015 @06:16PM (#9097686)
Unfortunately, name, `nub`, is the best thing about this function. It has horrible (O(n^2)) performance, and only works with lists.
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