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From: andrew@jupiter.ADS.COM (Andrew Neuschatz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: What does LOAD do?
Message-ID: <7429@zodiac.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 01:27:52 GMT
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In article <7428@zodiac.UUCP>, I wrote:

>This is underspecified in CLtL: "If the first argument [to LOAD] is a stream
>rather  than a pathname, then LOAD determines what kind of stream it is and
>loads directly from the stream."  (Page 426.)

Whoops; this wasn't very clear.  I meant to say that I originally intended to
just use LOAD, and indeed that worked with Franz Allegro Common Lisp on a Sun,
but it doesn't work on a Symbolics.  I get the impression it should in Common
Lisp, but it's underspecified.

- Andrew