TheCommon Lisp HyperSpec is atechnical standard document written in thehypertext formatHypertext Markup Language (HTML). It is not theAmerican National Standards Institute (ANSI)Common Lisp standard, but is based on it, with permission from ANSI and theInternational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS, X3).[1] Originally developed byKent Pitman atHarlequin,[2] it is now copyrighted by LispWorks Ltd.[3] It is approximately 15megabytes (MB) of data in 2,300 files which contain approximately 105,000hyperlinks.
The HyperSpec is used by many Common Lisp development environments (examples:LispWorks, the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs (SLIME) for looking up reference information on the constructs of ANSI Common Lisp. The HyperSpec is also available for download.
Before the ANSI Common Lisp standard, the bookCommon Lisp the Language had been used as a Common Lisp standard reference.[4]
Allegro Common Lisp has its own hypertext version of the ANSI Common Lisp standard.
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