The Common Lisp HyperSpec is a

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document written in the

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format ''Hypertext Markup Language'' (

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). It is not the

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(ANSI)

Common Lisp Common Lisp (CL) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard document ''ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (S2018)'' (formerly ''X3.226-1994 (R1999)''). The Common Lisp HyperSpec, a hyperli ...

standard, but is based on it, with permission from ANSI and the

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(INCITS, X3). Originally developed by Kent Pitman at Harlequin, it is now copyrighted by LispWorks Ltd. It is approximately 15

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s (MB) of data in 2,300 files which contain approximately 105,000

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s. The HyperSpec is used by many Common Lisp development environments (examples: LispWorks, the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs (

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) for looking up reference information on the constructs of ANSI Common Lisp. The HyperSpec is also available for download. Before the ANSI Common Lisp standard, the book '' Common Lisp the Language'' had been used as a Common Lisp standard reference. Allegro Common Lisp has its own hypertext version of the ANSI Common Lisp standard.

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Common Lisp HyperSpec

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