What's trivial to one is not trivial to all.
The reason I posted the question (and answer) is that I saw someone else was confused about these operators in a different Stack Overflow question.
The "social" complaint was because the first commenter down-voted me because he though I was trying to get a badge, not because he thought there was something incorrect about the information (maybe he just didn't say so explicitly).
A lot of people coming to Lisp are new, and need small little code snippets.
Although my answer may seem trivial, it had a few carefully-thought-out properties:
1) A very specific title.
2) A specific answer, with alternatives, and references to the language spec. Many Lisp newbs won't know to go to the Hyperspec.
So, maybe I just posted this in the wrong place. What is the right place for standard techniques or snippets that can improve the code-quality of a cut-and-paste beginner?
The reason I posted the question (and answer) is that I saw someone else was confused about these operators in a different Stack Overflow question.
The "social" complaint was because the first commenter down-voted me because he though I was trying to get a badge, not because he thought there was something incorrect about the information (maybe he just didn't say so explicitly).
A lot of people coming to Lisp are new, and need small little code snippets.
Although my answer may seem trivial, it had a few carefully-thought-out properties: 1) A very specific title. 2) A specific answer, with alternatives, and references to the language spec. Many Lisp newbs won't know to go to the Hyperspec.
So, maybe I just posted this in the wrong place. What is the right place for standard techniques or snippets that can improve the code-quality of a cut-and-paste beginner?