MCL and CLOS

Macintosh Common Lisp uses the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), the object system of ANSI Common Lisp. CLOS is based on many years of experience with Common Lisp, augmented by substantive proposals and changes suggested by its developers and users, and coordinated by X3J13, a subcommittee of ANSI committee X3.

Common Lisp: The Language, second edition provides detailed summaries of the X3J13 committee's thinking. Though not an official standards document, the second edition of Steele extensively documents almost all of the functionality contained in the standard. Some changes to the standard have been approved since the time of publication of Common Lisp: The Language. Where they affect Macintosh Common Lisp, these changes are documented in the appropriate sections of this manual.

As you write new code, you should consult the standard as described in Steele or in the ANSI specification.

Gettmg Started with MCL - 19 OCT 1996

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