[Openmcl-devel] Compiler warnings

Ron Garret ron at flownet.com
Sun Oct 18 04:21:53 PDT 2009


On Oct 18, 2009, at 4:14 AM, Taoufik Dachraoui wrote:

> Also, I would like to insist on the fact that SETF creates a lexical  
> variable (on behavior at least,
> it is weird for me to say that because for me when I learned Common  
> Lisp I was told that
> there a daynamic and lexical variables).

Insist all you want, that won't make you right.

> The following example shows that SETF creates a lexical variable  
> (because f always returns
> the value of x as defined by SETF)

No, it doesn't:

? (setf x 1)
1
? (defun f () (+ x 1))
;Compiler warnings :
;   In F: Undeclared free variable X
F
? (let ((x pi)) (declare (special x)) (f))
4.141592653589793D0
? x
1
?

>
> If you do not agree please explain in more details so I learn and  
> understand something new.
>

See:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/specials.pdf

rg


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