keyword

ToC

Allegro CL

ANSI Common Lisp

10.2.2 keyword

Type

Supertypes:

keyword, symbol, t

Description:

The type keyword includes all symbols interned the keyword package.

Interning a symbol in the keyword package has three automatic effects:

1. It causes the symbol to become bound to itself.
2. It causes the symbol to become an external symbol of the keyword package.
3. It causes the symbol to become a constant variable.

See Also:

keywordp

Allegro CL Implementation Details:

None.