lou@atanasoff.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg) (02/13/90)
I have what looks like a typo in Common LIsp the Language, 2nd edition:
Page 567, first line:
... the user wishes to use a non-standard value for some variable ...
it can be bound by let inside the body of with-standard-io-syntax. For
example:
...
(with-open-file ...
(let ((*read-eval* nil))
(with-standard-io-syntax
(print data file))))
The text makes sense - put the let inside the with-standard-io-syntax - but
the example shows the let outside.
Is this a typo in the example?
Is there some ftp-able (or otherwise available) list of known typos in the
second edition as there was for the first?
Thank you.
--
Lou Steinberg
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arpa: lou@cs.rutgers.edulou@atanasoff.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg) (02/15/90)
[My appologies if this is a duplicate - I tried to post it but got
some kind of error, and I don't *think* it got out.]
In article <Feb.12.16.16.47.1990.390@atanasoff.rutgers.edu> I asked
about a typo in Common Lisp the Language, 2nd edition (in the examples
on page 567, let is outside with-standard-io-syntax but should be
inside). Guy Steele responded by mail and asked me to post his
response here:
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Is this a typo in the example?
Yes; in fact both examples on page 567 have this problem.
Sorry about that. Thanks for catching it.
Is there some ftp-able (or otherwise available) list of known typos in the
second edition as there was for the first?
Not yet. I have just begun to accumulate such a list;
it has about half a dozen entries. Within the next
several weeks I will clean it up and make it available.
Meanwhile, keep those cards and letters coming in.
--Guy Steele
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Lou Steinberg
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