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Clarification on OWN-SYMBOL
- To: (BUG LISP) at MIT-MC, bruc at MIT-ML
- Subject: Clarification on OWN-SYMBOL
- From: JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 78 20:39:00 GMT
- Original-date: 14 JUL 1978 1639-EDT
Probably most users wont have to do OWN-SYMBOL declarations, since
they will not be concerned with either of the two far-out cases
that cause problems:
1) when a macro definition expects to use, in its body, the renamed
versions of some system function, which was made into a macro by the user,
2) when the integrity of the compiler is at stake, such as would be the case
if some simple function was defined as a macro and then the toplevel
usage of the compiler would be non-standard; or when some simple system
function is redefined as a SUBR (or LSUBR) and the compiler has not
snapped the compiled-code links to the system version.