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Subject: Re: Common LISP Binding Dilemma
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Date: 21 Dec 89 01:28:47 GMT
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In article <414@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:
>The original CLtL says that makunbound "causes the dynamic (special) variable
>named by symbol to become unbound (have no value).  How does it behave when
>a new binding has been established over an old one?

See the first sentence of section 7.1.2.  It says that the functions
described in that section (including MAKUNBOUND) alter "the value
associated with the current binding of the variable."
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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