From d4522b8e9854178473adcea0fbb84f23f6e744bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felipe Boeira Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 18:39:03 +0100 Subject: Initial commit --- src/tests/vm/sample.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/tests/vm/sample.txt (limited to 'src/tests/vm/sample.txt') diff --git a/src/tests/vm/sample.txt b/src/tests/vm/sample.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c446830 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/tests/vm/sample.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +=== ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE ======================== + +CAR and CDR now return extra values. + +The function CAR now returns two values. Since it has to go to the +trouble to figure out if the object is carcdr-able anyway, we figured +you might as well get both halves at once. For example, the following +code shows how to destructure a cons (SOME-CONS) into its two slots +(THE-CAR and THE-CDR): + + (MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (THE-CAR THE-CDR) (CAR SOME-CONS) ...) + +For symmetry with CAR, CDR returns a second value which is the CAR of +the object. In a related change, the functions MAKE-ARRAY and CONS +have been fixed so they don't allocate any storage except on the +stack. This should hopefully help people who don't like using the +garbage collector because it cold boots the machine so often. -- cgit v1.2.1