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Assoc

Name: Anonymous 2011-03-13 5:55

Why does assoc return both a key and a value? Is there a strong reason for that or it's just a historical atavism?

Name: Anonymous 2011-03-13 5:58

>>1
Because CL is bloated with legacy. It has assoc, hashes, plists, when it would be nice to have finger-tree for everything.

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