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From: barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: CLOS speed
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Date: 28 Oct 89 02:44:37 GMT
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In article <1989Oct27.224758.13427@rpi.edu> harrisr@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Richard Harris) writes:
>it is hard (or impossible) 
>to do load-time evalutation of constants (in code created by macros) 
>in some implementations of CL, because CL does not support load-time 
>constants very well (#, is too limited).

ANSI CL will support load-time constants much better.  We've gotten rid of
"#," and added a LOAD-TIME-VALUE special form.
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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