ANSI Common Lisp
3 Evaluation and Compilation
3.1 Evaluation
3.1.1 Introduction to Environments
3.1.1.1 The Global Environment
The
global environment
is that part of an
environment
that contains
bindings
with both
indefinite scope
and
indefinite extent
. The
global environment
contains, among other things, the following:
bindings
of
dynamic variables
and
constant variables
.
bindings
of
functions
,
macros
, and
special operators
.
bindings
of
compiler macros
.
bindings
of
type
and
class
names
information about
proclamations
.
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