From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Eureka! Lexical bindings can be guaranteed! Date: 2000/03/07 Message-ID: <3161448495156937@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 594404556 References: <8a2naf$e4v$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38C4EE83.AF3BDA64@pindar.com> <8a2t3p$hpv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8a32uj$m10$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38C53ED0.5639924A@ncgr.org> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 952461423 16036 195.0.192.66 (7 Mar 2000 20:37:03 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Mar 2000 20:37:03 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * David Hanley | It seems possible (to me) to write some lisp macros to produce a typed | version of the language... before you reinvent the wheel, please investigate the THE special form and how it behaves in interpreted and compiled code under various optimization settings. you might be _very_ surprised. few Common Lisp programmers seem to know about the THE form, however. #:Erik