Kent Pitman's CL References

This directory contains:

• Association of Lisp Users (ALU) home page
• Common Lisp HyperSpec^TM
• Common Lisp: The Language, Second Edition
• X3J13 document archives
• X3J13 Charter: X3J13 Purposes (standing document X3J13/SD-05),
  which superseded X3J13 DRAFT Purposes (document X3J13/86-020) on 16-Mar-1987.
• Common Lisp Condition System (Revision 18)
  This document was the proposal as originally adopted. It was subsequently modified by cleanup issues in very substantial ways so is no longer a valid reference. It is of interest for historical reasons only.
  [View sample Implementation] [Download sample implementation]
• Some notably interesting "failed" issues:
  • Issue DEFSYSTEM
    - Writeup version 4 (19-Mar-1991)
    - KMP's personal meeting notes about this issue.
  • Issue PROCLAIM-LEXICAL
    - Writeup version 9 (8-Dec-1988)
    - KMP's personal meeting notes about this issue.
  • Issue STREAM-DEFINITION-BY-USER ("Gray Streams")
    - Writeup version 1 (22-Mar-1989)
    - KMP's personal meeting notes about this issue.
• Some notably interesting comments from X3J13's first public review:
  Note that all comments received during X3J13's first public review were deemed important enough to require immediate action (which action would have delayed publication of the standard).
  
  • Paul Robertson's suggestion to break the language into separately loadable components.

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