On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:21:33 PDT "David Leimbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote:
> (format t "Hello, World!~%")
> 
> basically gets "read" then compiled then executed right?  (thinking REPL
> here)
>
> Right?  At least that's how SBCL works based on my understanding.

Well, it is not a read-eval-print-loop -- it is not
interactive or a loop and the code has to explicit print
something.  But yes the expression does get read, compiled
and executed.  SBCL is forked from CMUCL so they share most
of their behavior.

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