On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Kazimir Majorinc wrote: > "DEFVAR and DEFPARAMETER do the combined service of > > - in some implementations, recording the "definitional home" of the > variable > - declaring the indicated variable special in compiler and runtime > - assigning the variable (either conditionally, as in DEFVAR, which > assigns only in the case that the variable is unbound, or > unconditionally, as in DEFPARAMETER). " > > K. Pitman, comp.lang.lisp, 26. April 2001. > > What "recording the definitional home" means? Why "in some > implementations?"
Without seeing the context, I read a couple things into this. - source location for stuff like M-. - compilation unit which creates memory for and initializes the variable Later, Daniel _______________________________________________ pro mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro
