Pascal Bourguignon  <spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
+---------------
| tfb@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick) writes:
| >   (defvar *some-var* 2)
| >   (define-symbol-macro some-var (symbol-value '*some-var*))
| >
| > And now you have some-var, which behaves like a global lexical.
| 
| If it'sa global lexical, non dynamic (special), why do you
| name it with stars?
+---------------

One shouldn't, of course. And when I'm using my DEFLEX macro
[posted separately], I don't:

    > (deflex a 34)

    A
    > (defun value-of-global-a () a)

    VALUE-OF-GLOBAL-A
    > (let ((a 53))
        (list a (value-of-global-a)))

    (53 34)
    > 


-Rob

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