MCL 2.0 Release Notes

Macintosh Common Lisp 2.0 Release Notes These Release Notes supplement the material in Getting Started with Macintosh Common Lisp 2.0. MCL 2.0 conforms to the Common Lisp standard as it is described in Guy L. Steele’s Common Lisp: The Language (Second Edition). The ANSI Common Lisp standard continues to evolve through the work of the ANSI X3J13 subcommittee. In a few cases we have incorporated post-Steele details in MCL 2.0, based on our understanding of the ongoing work of the subcommittee. The second edition of Steele (which we’ll refer to as Steele2 below) is, however, the Common Lisp reference intended to be used with this implementation. Previous versions of our Lisp product have been called “Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp” — this is the “MACL” you will encounter as you read this document. MACL 1.x versions were based on the first edition of Steele’s book (Steele1 from now on). Actually, the lineage of this Lisp goes back farther still, to a product called “Coral Common Lisp” (this is why, for example, the package in which we have defined our extensions to the Common Lisp standard is called “CCL”). This document contains five sections: Part 1: Installing Macintosh Common Lisp 2.0 . . . . . . . 2 Part 2: General Notes on MCL 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . 4 Part 3: Third-Party MCL-Based Tools . . . . . . . . . 12 Part 4: Upgrading from MACL 1.x to MCL 2.0 . . . . . . . 14 Part 5: Upgrading from MCL 2.0b1 to MCL 2.0 . . . . . . . 18 If you are just starting out with MCL 2.0, you probably do not need to read past the first section for now. After you’ve gone through Getting Started and become familiar with the MCL environment, come back and skim Parts 2 and 3; you may find the information they contain useful. Although some effort has been made to divide information among the final two sections in a reasonable way, you may find it useful to skim both of them. MCL 2.0 Release Notes 1 Part # 030-1960-A Part 1— Installing Macintosh Common Lisp 2.0 If you have a CD-ROM drive attached to your Macintosh, simply drag the “MCL 2.0” folder from the MCL 2.0 CD-ROM to your hard disk, then proceed to step 9 below. Installing from Floppy Disks The three MCL 2.0 floppy disks each contain one segment of a Compact Pro archive. The archive is “self-extracting”: you need only insert disk #1, double-click on the “MCL 2.0.sea” application’s icon, then follow Compact Pro’s instructions. Compact Pro will create a folder called “MCL 2.0” containing the entire MCL 2.0 environment. Make sure you have 5.5 megabytes available on your hard disk, then follow these steps: 1. It is a good idea to back up the three disks shipped with MCL 2.0, just in case you need to reinstall…