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defvar, defparameter, :unbound
- To: Glacier!isrlist@tove.umd.edu
- Subject: defvar, defparameter, :unbound
- From: mips!escargot.earl@glacier (Earl Killian)
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 85 07:02:16 pst
- Cc: SOLEY@MIT-MC.ARPA, common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- In-reply-to: Nick Papadakis's message of Tue, 5 Nov 85 12:36:00 EST
This doesn't seem important enough to become a language feature; one
of advantages of lisp is that you could have written a DOCVAR macro
that does what you want for this one particular application, and then
just done
(docvar foo "Foo is unbound")
instead of
(defvar foo :unbound "Foo is unbound")