Re: Common Lisp solved this problem 20 years ago Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk 26 Oct 2005 09:09 UTC

Per Bothner <xxxxxx@bothner.com> writes:

> Common Lisp allows a compiler to *assume* / is defined to the standard
> / operation, unless there is a visible re-definition.

Common Lisp doesn't allow to rebind standard symbols at all (and some
implementations enforce this). It's undefined behavior.

This applies to rebind standard symbols. Shadowing symbols is a
different thing.

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   __("<         Marcin Kowalczyk
   \__/       xxxxxx@knm.org.pl
    ^^     http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/