C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 16 Dec 2005:
> The ANSI draft specification dpANS2 and it's unofficial revision dpANS3
> have essentially been the bible for free Lisp implementations since
> Common Lisp became an ANSI spec - they contain virtually all the
> material present in the actual ANSI spec and are freely available
> It is available from here: ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/cl/
> The problem with these draft specs, and the primary reason more hasn't
> been done with them, is because their legal status is - um - murky.
> We obviously can't go the route of the Hyperspec since ANSI has no
> incentive to release the official version publicly even if they could,
> but the draft will serve - dpANS3 is by all accounts I have heard very
> very close to the ANSI final in content.
Isn't the hyperspec very close to the ANSI final draft also? And isn't the
legal status of the hyperspec much more clear? Would it be possible to start
with that as a base instead?
-- Don
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