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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Beginner ? - What is 'uses'
Message-ID: <4095@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Feb 91 17:59:25 GMT
References: <21436@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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>I am reading a book which has some sample LISP code in it.  I am also learning
>LISP.  It has the following line of code in many of the sections:
>
>      (uses 'prog-name)
>
>Is this a standard LISP function?  I am using VAX LISP.  Any help would be 
>appreciated.  Thanks in advance for the help.

It's not standard Lisp.  I think I've seen this book, though I can't
remember for sure which one it is.  (Maybe Gadzer and Mellish's book
on Natural Language?).  The idea is to say that inorder to run the
things in this file (where the uses appears), you also need the things
in that other file.

-- Jeff