Re: CLtL2 copyright question

On Apr 30, 3:34 am, D Herring <dherr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
elease this work publicly.

Common Lisp needs a publicly-modifiable specification for many
reasons, of which here are a few examples.

No, it doesn't. What it needs is for people to experiment with and
later standardise on new features. Those standards, when they are
agreed, can simply refer back to the original standard and describe
what they are modifying.

In other words: this is all displacement activity.


CLtL2 provided a
useful foundation for dpANS,

No, it didn't. CLtL *1* did.
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