diff --git a/general-info/cmucl.1 b/general-info/cmucl.1 index bb2a9d993a2db1fa059b597ea124d72c8ee20b44..fe6ecf6fa69eba40416ca8fdfb2a491d8c7d4863 100644 --- a/general-info/cmucl.1 +++ b/general-info/cmucl.1 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ .\" If you want to use this code or any part of CMU Common Lisp, please contact .\" Scott Fahlman or slisp-group@cs.cmu.edu. .\" -.\"$Header: /Volumes/share2/src/cmucl/cvs2git/cvsroot/src/general-info/cmucl.1,v 1.1 1991/10/16 15:51:52 ram Exp $ +.\"$Header: /Volumes/share2/src/cmucl/cvs2git/cvsroot/src/general-info/cmucl.1,v 1.2 1991/10/17 16:41:37 ram Exp $ .\" .\" ********************************************************************** .\" @@ -20,14 +20,17 @@ CMU Common Lisp .SH DESCRIPTION CMU Common Lisp is public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming -environment. It is currently available for Sparcstations and DECstations -(pmaxes) running Mach (or OSF/1). We are beta-testing a SunOS SPARC version -and an IBM RT Mach version. +environment. Many of the X3j13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. +Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of +either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting +to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. -Many of the X3j13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever -possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLTL1 -or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to -users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. +.SH HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS + +CMU CL is currently available for Sparcstations and DECstations (pmaxes) +running Mach (or OSF/1). We are beta-testing a SunOS SPARC version and an IBM +RT Mach version. At least 16 megabytes of memory and 25 megabytes of disk +space are recommended. As usual, more is better. .SH OVERVIEW When compared other Common Lisp implementations (such as Allegro), CMU CL has @@ -127,6 +130,10 @@ reduced), then the type error may cause obscure errors or infinite looping. See the section `Getting Existing Programs to Run' (6.6) in the compiler chapter of the user manual. +CMU CL adheres to the X3J13 function type cleanup, which means that quoted +lambda-lists are not of type FUNCTION, and are no longer directly callable. +Use COERCE with the FUNCTION result type. + .SH OPTIMIZATION Python does many optimizations that are absent or less general in other