Subject: Re: Common Lisp reference manual
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 29 May 2002 01:38:09 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <ad1be1$44gen$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Erik Naggum  <erik@naggum.net> wrote:
+---------------
| ...the Standard, as in the (Xanalys) HyperSpec... (Franz Inc also has
| a version of the standard with a very different visual appeal -- I have
| recently heard people who much prefer it, so it ought to be mentioned.)
+---------------

Interesting. Yes, a very different look, somewhat "cleaner"(?)
feeling perhaps, though I suspect a lot of that is probably just
the white background versus the default gray of the Xanalys version.

[Hmmm... The Franz version seems to be missing a few links here & there.
E.g., on page "2.1.4.1 Constituent Characters", the Xanalys version
contains a link at the bottom to "2.1.4.2 Constituent Traits", a link
missing in the Franz version -- though both of them do go to "2.1.4.2
Constituent Traits" when the "next-in-sequence" button is clicked.]

I like to keep a copy of the CLHS on my laptop for easy reference
when off-net. Does anyone know if the whole Franz version is available
for download (e.g., as a tarball) the way the Xanalys HyperSpec is?
I browsed around the Franz site for a while, but couldn't find anything.
But I admit I could easily have overlooked it. [The "download" link to
"HyperSpec-6-0.tar.gz" isn't all that easy to find on the Xanalys site,
either...]


-Rob

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