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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: `fast' global variables (Ex: Re: ??: using * for variable ?)
Date: 1999/03/23
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* mikemac@mikemac.com (Mike McDonald)
| So the (hyper) spec uses "constant object" for immutable things.
| defconstant doesn't signify that the object is constant, only that using
| the binding of the symbol has to be equivilent to using the literal form.

  and?  what part of "literal" don't you get?

#:Erik