2 Design Choices and Extensions

Several design choices in Common Lisp are left to the individual implementation, and some essential parts of the programming environment are left undefined. This chapter discusses the most important design choices and extensions.

 
• 2.1 Data Types
  • 2.1.1 Symbols
  • 2.1.2 Integers
  • 2.1.3 Floats
    • 2.1.3.1 IEEE Special Values
    • 2.1.3.2 Negative Zero
    • 2.1.3.3 Denormalized Floats
    • 2.1.3.4 Floating Point Exceptions
    • 2.1.3.5 Floating Point Rounding Mode
      • Warning:
    • 2.1.3.6 Accessing the Floating Point Modes
  • 2.1.4 Characters
  • 2.1.5 Array Initialization
• 2.2 Default Interrupts for Lisp
• 2.3 Packages
• 2.4 The Editor
• 2.5 Garbage Collection
  • 2.5.1 GC Parameters
  • 2.5.2 Weak Pointers
  • 2.5.3 Finalization
• 2.6 Describe
• 2.7 The Inspector
  • 2.7.1 The Graphical Interface
  • 2.7.2 The TTY Inspector
• 2.8 Load
• 2.9 The Reader
• 2.10 Stream Extensions
• 2.11 Running Programs from Lisp
  • 2.11.1 Process Accessors
• 2.12 Saving a Core Image
• 2.13 Pathnames
  • 2.13.1 Unix Pathnames
  • 2.13.2 Wildcard Pathnames
  • 2.13.3 Logical Pathnames
  • 2.13.4 Search Lists
  • Predefined Search-Lists
  • Search-List Operations
  • 2.13.7 Search List Example
• 2.14 Filesystem Operations
  • 2.14.1 Wildcard Matching
  • 2.14.2 File Name Completion
  • 2.14.3 Miscellaneous Filesystem Operations
• 2.15 Time Parsing and Formatting
• 2.16 Random Number Generation
  • 2.16.1 Original Generator
  • 2.16.2 New Generator
• 2.17 Lisp Library