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From: patcl@hammer.UUCP (Pat Clancy)
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: question for a Common Lisp guru
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 01:13:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 25 01:13:18 1986
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The book Common Lisp (1984) says that "defun", used to
establish global function definitions, is a macro (p. 67).
Yet, this doesn't seem possible, as there does not seem to
be any special form which could be used to implement such
a macro. Also, there are some references in the book to
"defun" as a special form, although it is not listed
in the table of all special forms (p. 57). So, is the
book wrong to define "defun" as a macro, and should it really
be one of the special forms?

Pat Clancy
Tektronix