Tim Bradshaw

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Note that symbols which are exported from `CL` (or `LISP`) don't need to have it as their home package. So CL doesn't require that `(symbol-package 'cl:car)` is the `CL` package....

See my comment to #1613 which probably belongs here: `loop` doesn't do nested iteration and I think the implementation is correct with regards to #1613: the code is wrong in...

@pamoroso While I think (same caveat as before!) that the error message is unhelpful it is, I think correct: presumably what it's saying is 'I was a state where I...

This is still broken, two years later. Please fix it!

`127.0.0.1` _is_ `localhost`, so if it can't connect then nothing is listening on `localhost`, or access is being blocked. However the port numbers in your two messages are not the...

I can't remember CLtL2, but the ANSI standard is somewhat buggy here: pathname directories can be strings, lists, or some implementation-dependent thing. [This issue](https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Issues/iss263_w.htm) describes what the list syntax is,...

Note that (if I read it correctly) the directory *can't* be a (non-empty) list of strings in ANSI CL. It needs to be a list whose first element is `:absolute`...

This is probably a dumb comment as my knowledge of the files system has rotted almost entirely, but is there a way of associating an arbitrary form to be evaluated...

I'm not sure how Interlisp thinks of this, but in CL terms the function is not shadowed: the symbol which names it is, and such shadowing would affect any other...

I am not sure whether the aim is to be compatible with CL or not. If the aim is to be compatible with CL then there are some things which...