Re: Morally equivalent

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
>
>> It is just political nonsense pushed into software.  An introductory
>> textbook for beginning undergraduates is never serious.  And even
>> if it was serious, morality does not work.  Either it is equivalent,
>> or it is not.  There is no morality in it.
>
> I was not familiar with that term (doesn't appear in German) but
> understood the doc perfectly.  OTOH, if the text said
>
>   This is not equivalent to (setf PLACE (cons NEWELT PLACE))
>
> I would not have understood (and it is _not_ equivalent).
>
> Until someone comes with a better wording we should stop the
> Stefan-bashing.  Read it as "equivalent in some sense", and good.  It's
> a text, ok, not a computer program controlling the city traffic.
>
> Michael.
>
>

This should be:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
This is almost equivalent to (setf PLACE (cons NEWELT PLACE)),
except that PLACE is evaluated only once (after NEWELT).
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Anyway, I enjoy occasionally finding things like "morally equivalent" in
Emacs.

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