[slime-devel] Re: the slime inspector

[Pascal J.Bourguignon]

Martin Simmons writes:
> >>>>> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:14:19 +0200, "Pascal J.Bourguignon" <pjb at informatimago.com> said:
> 
>   Pascal> Peter Seibel writes:
>   >> > - figure out how to distinguish between a defvar/defparameter and
>   >> >   defcontstant symbol.
> 
>   Pascal> This should be implementation dependant.
>  
>   >> How about CONSTANTP?
> 
>   Pascal> CONSTANTP does not do what you think!
> 
>   Pascal> [22]> (defvar x 1)
>   Pascal> X
>   Pascal> [23]> (defvar c 1)
>   Pascal> C

Ooooops. I thought really very strongly DEFCONSTANT, but I forgot to
activate the telephatic module of my computer :-(

[32]> (defconstant c 1)
C
[33]> (constantp 'c)
T
[34]> (constantp 'x)
NIL

> Is the above really the output from a running Common Lisp, with CONSTANTP
> returning both T and NIL for the symbol X?  Was C supposed to be DEFCONTSTANT?
> 
> Maybe you didn't type what you think :-)

Indeed. Sorry.  So CONSTANTP can be used.


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