Toomas Altosaar posts a dangerous little function to info-mcl:
Even more disconcerting is when 0.0 stops being 0.0. Here is a compact (and faulty) example of how to change the value behind 0.0 using "standard Lisp code" in MCL: (defun increment-0.0 (value) (let ((sum 0.0)) (declare (dynamic-extent sum)) (incf sum value))) (increment-0.0 5.0) and now if you eval 0.0 you get 5.0 0.0 => 5.0 and it's time to reboot.
P.S. Lemonodor.com is operating in reduced-functionality mode for a bit. Mostly this means I won't be posting anything, and the comments links don't work. You can still read the comments by following the timestamp/permalink link at the end of each entry (except for this entry, because... it's not a real entry).
Posted by jjwiseman at April 22, 2002 11:39 AM