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Issue DEFVAR-INIT-TIME (Version 1)
- To: CL-Cleanup@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
- Subject: Issue DEFVAR-INIT-TIME (Version 1)
- From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 2 May 1987 00:28 EDT
- In-reply-to: Msg of 23 Apr 1987 16:59-EDT from Kent M Pitman <KMP at STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
- Sender: FAHLMAN@C.CS.CMU.EDU
This looks OK to me.
I believe that the cause of the confusion is really the statement that
the initial value form is not evaluated unless "it is used". Better to
say that INITIAL-VALUE is evaluated if and only if the variable does not
already have a value. Then I think that there would be no confusion
about the time of evaluation, though it can't hurt to spell this out
explicitly.
-- Scott