[OS X Emacs] [OT] map-query-replace-regexp: why?

[Enrico Franconi]

On 30 Sep 2010, at 19:25, Jack Repenning wrote:

> On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Enrico Franconi wrote:
> 
>> This goes back to a typical lisp programming pattern, familiar to the older among us who did a lot of lisp programming in their youth :-)
> 
> Well, yeah, I recognize the pattern, and was writing lisp when people still got huffy about spelling it LISP ;-). But even AI programmers usually have a *reason* for doing something! 

mmhh, let me think... ah, no, actually this was/is seldom the case... :-)
--e.