v. (of a handler)
to return normally without having handled the condition
being signaled, permitting the signaling process to continue
as if the handler had not been present.
n.absolutetime, represented as an ordered series of
nine objects which, taken together, form a description of
a point in calendar time, accurate to the nearest second (except
that leap seconds are ignored).
See Section 25.1.4.1 Decoded Time.
n. a list of alternating initialization argument names and
values in which unsupplied initialization arguments are
defaulted, used in the protocol for initializing and reinitializing
instances of classes.
adj., ANSI, IEEE (of a float)
conforming to the description of "denormalized" as described by
IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic.
For example, in an implementation where the minimum possible exponent
was -7 but where 0.001 was a valid mantissa, the number 1.0e-10
might be representable as 0.001e-7 internally even if the normalized
representation would call for it to be represented instead as 1.0e-10
or 0.1e-9. By their nature, denormalizedfloats generally
have less precision than normalizedfloats.
n.
an object that denotes another object.
In the dictionary entry for an operator
if a parameter is described as a designator for a type,
the description of the operator is written in a way
that assumes that appropriate coercion to that type has already occurred;
that is, that the parameter is already of the denoted type.
For more detailed information, see Section 1.4.1.5 Designators.
n. (of a classC)
an object whose class is C itself,
rather than some subclass of C.
The function make-instance always returns a
direct instance of the class which is (or is named by)
its first argument.
n.
an array which has no storage of its own, but which is instead
indirected to the storage of another array, called its
target, at a specified offset, in such a way that any attempt
to access the displaced array implicitly references the
targetarray.
n. (in a defining form)
A literalstring which because of the context in which
it appears (rather than because of some intrinsically observable
aspect of the string) is taken as documentation.
In some cases, the documentation string is saved in such a
way that it can later be obtained by supplying either an object,
or by supplying a name and a "kind" to the functiondocumentation.
The body of code in a defmacro form can be preceded
by a documentation string of kind function.
n. an extent whose duration is bounded by points of
establishment and disestablishment within the execution
of a particular form. See indefinite extent.
Dynamic variable bindings have dynamic extent.