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- These notes correspond to *pcl-system-date* "4/21/87 April 21rst 1987".
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- The notes from the last release are stored as 3-19-notes.text
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- This release runs in:
- ExCL
- Lucid
- Symbolics Common Lisp (Genera)
- Vaxlisp (2.0)
- Xerox Common Lisp (Lyric Release)
- Kyoto Common Lisp (5.2)
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- CMU Lisp (nee Spice) should be working soon, I will announce another
- release at that time.
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- Xerox Lisp users should FTP all the source files from /pub/pcl/ as well
- as all the dfasl files from /pub/pcl/xerox/. Included in the xerox
- specific directory is a file called PCL-ENV, which provides some simple
- environment support for using PCL in Xerox Lisp.
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- The major difference in this release is that defclass conforms to the
- CLOS specification (pretty much I hope). Previous warnings about what
- would happen when defclass became CLOS defclass now apply. Once major
- difference is that PCL currently does require that all a classes
- superclasses be defined when a defclass form is evaluated. This will
- change sometime soon.
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- Other small changes include:
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- Some more of the files have been renamed and restructured (as promised).
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- the defclass parsing protocol has changed
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- slotd datastructures are now instances of the class
- standard-slot-description.
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- a performance bug in the ExCL port which causes method lookup and slot
- access to cons needlessly.
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- a bug in the 3600 port which broke the printer for stack consed closures
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- make-specializable
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- a bug in Lucid lisp which made it impossible to say (compile-pcl) has
- been patched around, this is the bug that manifested itself as NAME
- being ubound.
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- As usual, please enjoy and send comments.
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