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a proposal about compatibility
- To: common-lisp at SU-AI
- Subject: a proposal about compatibility
- From: HEDRICK at RUTGERS (Mngr DEC-20's/Dir LCSR Comp Facility)
- Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1982 17:26:00 -0000
I would like to propose that CL be a dialect of Lisp. A reasonable
definition of Lisp seems to be the following:
- all functions defined in the "Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual",
McCarthy, et. al, 1962, other than those that are system- or
implementation-dependent
- all functions on whose definitions Maclisp and Interlisp agree
I propose that CL should not redefine any names from these two sets,
except in ways that are upwards-compatible.
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