From: "Mark J.Reed" <mreed@...>
Date: 2005-12-16T07:22:39+09:00
Subject: Re: LISP to Ruby translation

Douglas Livingstone wrote:
> Just a quick one, how do you translate this:
> 
> ((if (zero? 0) + -) 3 4)

What dialect of LISP is that?  Not Common... CL has no "zero?"
(it's "zerop"), and + and - refer to input history rather than the functions
associated with the operators.  To do something like that in CL I think
you have to use the characters '+ and '- and an (eval)...