Lisp - expecting newbies to look things up (was: How can this macro be improved?)

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expecting newbies to look things up (was: How can this macro be improved?)

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo

2005-05-28, 8:57 pm

"Tron3k" <tron3k@gmail.com> writes:

> Just today I saw someone throw out the acronym "MOP"
> in responding to a newbie's post about CLOS.

That was in a list of CLOS features that the newbie would then
look up and consider learning. I don't think expanding the
abbreviation would have helped much. Admittedly, the glossary of
CLHS (and presumably the standard as well) includes an entry for
"Metaobject Protocol" but none for "MOP". It's still easy to
find in the Web if qualified with "CLOS" or "Lisp".

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