Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!mike
From: mike@ists.ists.ca (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Elisp -- Summary
Message-ID: <336@ists.ists.ca>
Date: 4 Jan 89 00:25:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: ists.336
References: <2211@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
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In article <2211@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>, Dave Lawrence writes:
> Emacs Lisp is dynamically scoped; Common Lisp is lexically scoped.
> This creates some rather large problems on a fundamental level as far
> as compatibility is concerned.

However, it shares much in common with Franz lisp in this regard.
They are both direct MACLisp descendents.

> Elisp doesn't have floating-point arithmetic.  Some notable absences
> from Elisp (for my needs) are defstruct and setf.

Note that it doesn't even have 32-bit integers.

> One last way to get all of the on-line documentation of functions and
> primitives is to push the list returned by apropos through the 
> documentation function.  `(mapcar 'documentation (apropos ""))' was 
> suggested by Bill Janssen at MCC Software.  Note that it will keep
> Emacs busy for a couple of moments.

Except on a Cray, you may wish to revise moments to months :-)

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