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The function OBJECT-TYPE special-cased NIL and returned SYMBOL as its type. git-blame shown that this kludge was part of the initial release so I could not find any reason why it does not return NULL instead. Removing the kludge did not yield any noticeable regressions. My guess is that the type system was deficient at that time and type-of did not work on the type NIL. Returning SYMBOL instead of NULL lead to a sloppy type propagation of locations containing NIL. |
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ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project aims to produce an implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the language.
The term embeddable refers to the fact that ECL includes a Lisp to C compiler, which produces libraries (static or dynamic) that can be called from C programs. Furthermore, ECL can produce standalone executables from Lisp code and can itself be linked to your programs as a shared library. It also features an interpreter for situations when a C compiler isn't available.
ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (at least v. 9), Microsoft Windows (MSVC, MinGW and Cygwin) and OSX, running on top of the Intel, Sparc, Alpha, ARM and PowerPC processors. Porting to other architectures should be rather easy.