On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon <
p...@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
> ;;; In function MAKE-KEYWORD, checking types of arguments SYM.
> What does this note mean?
>
That means a possibly expensive type check for SYM was inserted at the
beginning of the function. In this case
When compiling this function:
(DEFUN MAKE-KEYWORD (SYM)
"
RETURN: A new keyword with SYM as name.
"
(INTERN (STRING SYM) (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")))
I get:
;;; Compiling (DEFUN MAKE-KEYWORD ...).
;;; Note:
;;; in file utility.lisp, position 28160
;;; at (DEFUN MAKE-KEYWORD ...)
;;; In
