X3J13 Cleanup Issues

The cleanup issues from the X3J13 standardization of Common Lisp. Each records a problem with the language as specified in Common Lisp: the Language and the committee's proposed resolution.

Passed into the standard

Issues the committee passed; their resolutions are woven into the draft standard.

• &ENVIRONMENT-BINDING-ORDER Proposal FIRST passed, Nov 89 X3J13
• ACCESS-ERROR-NAME
• ADJUST-ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT passed, 1988 (not sure which meeting)
• ADJUST-ARRAY-FILL-POINTER passed, 1988 (not sure which meeting)
• ADJUST-ARRAY-NOT-ADJUSTABLE Version 11 passed Jun 89 X3J13 (Version 5 passed Jan 89, but various problems were found.)
• ALLOCATE-INSTANCE
• APPLYHOOK-ENVIRONMENT Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• AREF-1D passed 1988 (not sure which meeting)
• ARGUMENT-MISMATCH-ERROR v2+amendments (reflected in v5) accepted by X3J13, June 1990
• ARGUMENTS-UNDERSPECIFIED Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• ARRAY-TYPE-ELEMENT-TYPE-SEMANTICS Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• ASSOC-RASSOC-IF-KEY passed, 1988 (not sure which meeting)
• BREAK-ON-WARNINGS-OBSOLETE Passed, as amended, Mar 89 X3J13
• CHARACTER-LOOSE-ENDS
• CHARACTER-PROPOSAL
• CLOS-CONDITIONS Passed, Mar 89 X3J13
• CLOS-CONDITIONS-AGAIN
• CLOSE-CONSTRUCTED-STREAM Proposal ARGUMENT-STREAM-ONLY passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• CLOSED-STREAM-OPERATIONS Passed Jan 89 X3J13 with amendment to specify that CLOSE on a closed stream returns NIL. At Mar 89 X3J13, amendment was withdrawn; this version stands.
• COLON-NUMBER passed, 1988 (I don't know at which meeting)
• COMMON-TYPE Passed, Mar 89 X3J13
• COMPILER-WARNING-STREAM passed, June 87
• COMPLEX-ATAN-BRANCH-CUT Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• COMPLEX-ATANH-BOGUS-FORMULA Passed, Nov 89 X3J13
• COMPLEX-RATIONAL-RESULT Version 3 passed Jun89 X3J13 (Version 1 passed March 89, but had problems)
• COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS
• CONDITION-ACCESSORS-SETFABLE
• CONDITION-RESTARTS Version 2, Passed, Jun 89 X3J13 Version 3, as amended & passed Nov 89 X3J13
• CONDITION-SLOTS
• CONTAGION-ON-NUMERICAL-COMPARISONS Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• COPY-SYMBOL-COPY-PLIST Passed, Mar 89 X3J13
• COPY-SYMBOL-PRINT-NAME Passed, Mar 89 X3J13
• DATA-IO Passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• DATA-TYPES-HIERARCHY-UNDERSPECIFIED Passed, Aug 88 X3J13
• DECLARATION-SCOPE Proposal NO-HOSTING passed Jan 89 X3J13
• DECLARE-ARRAY-TYPE-ELEMENT-REFERENCES Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• DECLARE-FUNCTION-AMBIGUITY Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• DECLARE-MACROS passed, 1988 (not sure at which meeting)
• DECLARE-TYPE-FREE Proposal LEXICAL passed Jan 89 X3J13
• DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME-DAYLIGHT Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• DEFGENERIC-DECLARE
• DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO Version 2 (proposal NEW-FACILITY) passed at June 89 meeting Version 4 (proposal X3J13-NOV89) passed at Nov 89 meeting (replaces proposal NEW-FACILITY)
• DEFINE-CONDITION-SYNTAX
• DEFINE-DECLARATION-RETURN-VALUE
• DEFMACRO-BLOCK-SCOPE
• DEFMACRO-LAMBDA-LIST Passed, as amended, Mar 89 X3J13
• DEFPACKAGE Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• DEFSTRUCT-CONSTRUCTOR-KEY-MIXTURE Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• DEFSTRUCT-CONSTRUCTOR-SLOT-VARIABLES
• DEFSTRUCT-COPIER
• DEFSTRUCT-DEFAULT-VALUE-EVALUATION passed, Oct 88 X3J13
• DEFSTRUCT-PRINT-FUNCTION-INHERITANCE Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• DEFSTRUCT-REDEFINITION Passed (as amended) Jan 89 X3J13
• DEFSTRUCT-SLOTS-CONSTRAINTS-NAME Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• DEFSTRUCT-SLOTS-CONSTRAINTS-NUMBER Passed, 1988 (not sure which meeting)
• DEFTYPE-DESTRUCTURING
• DEFTYPE-KEY
• DEFVAR-DOCUMENTATION Passed, March 1988
• DEFVAR-INIT-TIME Passed, Jun 1987
• DEFVAR-INITIALIZATION passed, Jun 87
• DESCRIBE-INTERACTIVE Proposal NO passed Jan 89 X3J13
• DESCRIBE-UNDERSPECIFIED Passed, as amended, Mar 89 X3J13
• DESTRUCTURING-BIND
• DISASSEMBLE-SIDE-EFFECT Ready For Release?
• DO-SYMBOLS-DUPLICATES passed, 1988? (not sure which meeting)
• DOTTED-MACRO-FORMS passed Jan 89 X3J13
• DRIBBLE-TECHNIQUE Passed, 1988 (not sure which meeting)
• DYNAMIC-EXTENT passed, as amended, Mar 89 X3J13.
• DYNAMIC-EXTENT-FUNCTION passed, jun 89 X3j13
• EQUAL-STRUCTURE Passed as amended, Jun 89 X3J13
• ERROR-TERMINOLOGY-WARNING
• EVAL-OTHER Passed, Oct-88
• EVALHOOK-STEP-CONFUSION
• EXIT-EXTENT proposal MINIMAL, as amended, passed Mar 89 X3J13 by vote of 11-5.
• EXPT-RATIO passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• EXTENSIONS-POSITION
• FIXNUM-NON-PORTABLE Passed Jan 89 X3J13, as amended
• FLET-DECLARATIONS Passed, March 88
• FLET-IMPLICIT-BLOCK Passed, 1988? (not sure which meeting)
• FLOAT-UNDERFLOW Parts 1 and 2 of this proposal (ADD-CONTROLS) passed Jun89 X3J13. (Parts 3,4,5 tabled "indefinitely")
• FLOATING-POINT-CONDITION-NAMES
• FORMAT-ATSIGN-COLON Passed, jun-87
• FORMAT-COLON-UPARROW-SCOPE Passed, march 88
• FORMAT-COMMA-INTERVAL passed, March 88
• FORMAT-E-EXPONENT-SIGN Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• FORMAT-OP-C
• FORMAT-PRETTY-PRINT Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• FORMAT-STRING-ARGUMENTS
• FUNCTION-CALL-EVALUATION-ORDER passed v2 on 15-0 vote, Jun-90
• FUNCTION-COMPOSITION Passed (as amended) Jan 89 X3J13 (And reaffirmed Jun 89 X3J13 that this was the version wanted)
• FUNCTION-DEFINITION
• FUNCTION-NAME Proposal LARGE, with sections 7, 8, 9 removed, passed Mar 89 X3J13
• FUNCTION-TYPE
• FUNCTION-TYPE-ARGUMENT-TYPE-SEMANTICS Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• FUNCTION-TYPE-KEY-NAME Passed, 1988? (Not sure which meeting)
• FUNCTION-TYPE-REST-LIST-ELEMENT Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• GENSYM-NAME-STICKINESS Passed, Mar 89 X3J13
• GET-MACRO-CHARACTER-READTABLE Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• GET-SETF-METHOD-ENVIRONMENT Passed, 1988? (Not sure which meeting)
• HASH-TABLE-ACCESS Passed, as amended, Mar 89 X3J13 (by vote of 17-0)
• HASH-TABLE-KEY-MODIFICATION
• HASH-TABLE-PACKAGE-GENERATORS Passed, Jan 89 X3J13 (amended to remove example of test-package-iterator which has the values from the generator in the wrong order.)
• HASH-TABLE-SIZE Passed, as amended here, Jun 89 X3J13
• HASH-TABLE-TESTS Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• IEEE-ATAN-BRANCH-CUT Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• IMPORT-SETF-SYMBOL-PACKAGE passed, jun87
• IN-PACKAGE-FUNCTIONALITY proposal MAR89-X3J13 passed, as amended, Mar 89 X3J13
• IN-SYNTAX Passed, Mar 89 X3J13
• KEYWORD-ARGUMENT-NAME-PACKAGE Passed, Mar 88
• LAST-N
• LCM-NO-ARGUMENTS Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• LEXICAL-CONSTRUCT-GLOBAL-DEFINITION
• LISP-PACKAGE-NAME passed, as amended, Mar 89 X3J13
• LISP-SYMBOL-REDEFINITION Version 8 passed (superseding version 6), 6/8/90
• LOAD-OBJECTS Passed, as amended, Mar 89 X3J13 (18-0 vote)
• LOAD-TRUENAME Passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• LOCALLY-TOP-LEVEL Passed, Mar 89 X3J13
• LOOP-AND-DISCREPANCY Passed, Mar 89 X3J13
• MACRO-DECLARATIONS
• MACRO-FUNCTION-ENVIRONMENT
• MACROEXPAND-RETURN-VALUE
• MAKE-PACKAGE-USE-DEFAULT Passed, as amended
• MAP-INTO Passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• MAPPING-DESTRUCTIVE-INTERACTION Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• METHOD-COMBINATION-ARGUMENTS
• METHOD-INITFORM
• NTH-VALUE Passed, as amended, Jan 89 X3J13
• PACKAGE-CLUTTER Accepted v8 (superseding v7) on 15-0 vote, Jun-90
• PACKAGE-DELETION Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• PACKAGE-FUNCTION-CONSISTENCY
• PARSE-ERROR-STREAM Version 3 passed, 6/8/90
• PATHNAME-COMPONENT-CASE passed, as amended here, Jun 89 X3J13
• PATHNAME-COMPONENT-VALUE Passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• PATHNAME-LOGICAL Passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• PATHNAME-PRINT-READ Passed, as amended, Jun89 X3J13
• PATHNAME-STREAM
• PATHNAME-SUBDIRECTORY-LIST passed, as amended, Jun 89 X3J13
• PATHNAME-SYMBOL
• PATHNAME-SYNTAX-ERROR-TIME Proposal EXPLICITLY-VAGUE passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• PATHNAME-UNSPECIFIC-COMPONENT Accepted, as amended, Jan 89 X3J13
• PATHNAME-WILD Passed, as amended, Jun 89 X3j13
• PEEK-CHAR-READ-CHAR-ECHO Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• PRETTY-PRINT-INTERFACE
• PRINC-CHARACTER
• PRINT-CASE-PRINT-ESCAPE-INTERACTION proposal VERTICAL-BAR-RULE-NO-UPCASE passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• PRINT-CIRCLE-SHARED proposal RESPECT-PRINT-CIRCLE passed, as amended, Jun 89 X3J13 (another proposal NEW-VALUE was passed and then reconsidered.)
• PRINT-CIRCLE-STRUCTURE Passed, Jan 89 X3J13, as amended
• PUSH-EVALUATION-ORDER
• RANGE-OF-COUNT-KEYWORD Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• RANGE-OF-START-AND-END-PARAMETERS Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• READ-CASE-SENSITIVITY passed, as amended, Jun 89 X3J13
• READER-ERROR passed (unanimously) Jun-90 meeting (at which it was amended to rename READER-ERROR to PARSE-ERROR.)
• REAL-NUMBER-TYPE Accepted v3 Mar-89 by X3J13 (on a 12-3 vote) with amendments. The proposal as amended is v4.
• REDUCE-ARGUMENT-EXTRACTION
• REMF-DESTRUCTION-UNSPECIFIED v6 accepted by X3J13 with amendments to fix typos (see v7) on 16-1 vote
• REQUIRE-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• REST-LIST-ALLOCATION Proposal MAY-SHARE passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• RETURN-VALUES-UNSPECIFIED Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• ROOM-DEFAULT-ARGUMENT Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• SEQUENCE-TYPE-LENGTH Passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• SETF-FIND-CLASS
• SETF-FUNCTIONS-AGAIN
• SETF-MACRO-EXPANSION
• SETF-MULTIPLE-STORE-VARIABLES Passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• SETF-OF-APPLY
• SETF-SUB-METHODS Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• SHADOW-ALREADY-PRESENT
• SHARPSIGN-PLUS-MINUS-PACKAGE
• SLOT-MISSING-VALUES
• SPECIAL-TYPE-SHADOWING Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• STANDARD-INPUT-INITIAL-BINDING Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• STANDARD-REPERTOIRE-GRATUITOUS
• STEP-ENVIRONMENT Passed, Jan 89 X3J13, as amended
• STREAM-ACCESS Proposal ADD-TYPES-ACCESSORS passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• STREAM-CAPABILITIES Passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• STRING-COERCION Passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• STRUCTURE-READ-PRINT-SYNTAX
• SUBSEQ-OUT-OF-BOUNDS
• SUBTYPEP-TOO-VAGUE Passed, as amended, Jun89 X3J13
• SYMBOL-MACROLET-DECLARE Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• SYMBOL-MACROLET-SEMANTICS Version 5 passed Jan 89 X3J13 Version 6 passed Mar 89 X3J13
• TAILP-NIL Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• TEST-NOT-IF-NOT Passed, as amended, Jan 89 X3J13 Note: some confusion in minutes as to whether COMPLEMENT was added as part of TEST-NOT-IF-NOT or whether FUNCTION-COMPOSITION was passed but with only COMPLEMENT preserved. In any case: TEST-NOT-IF-NOT:FLUSH-ALL as stated here passed with "Remove" -> "Deprecate". See issue FUNCTION-COMPOSITION for more details.
• THE-AMBIGUITY proposal FOR-DECLARATION passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• THE-VALUES X3J13 passed v1:RETURN-NUMBER-RECEIVED on vote of 10-1, Mar-91
• TIME-ZONE-NON-INTEGER Passed v1 (as amended in v2) Mar-89 by 18-0 vote.
• TYPE-DECLARATION-ABBREVIATION
• TYPE-OF-AND-PREDEFINED-CLASSES
• TYPE-OF-UNDERCONSTRAINED passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• TYPE-SPECIFIER-ABBREVIATION
• UNDEFINED-VARIABLES-AND-FUNCTIONS Passed, as amended, Jun89 X3J13
• UNREAD-CHAR-AFTER-PEEK-CHAR Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• UNSOLICITED-MESSAGES
• VARIABLE-LIST-ASYMMETRY Passed, Jan 89 X3J13
• WITH-ADDED-METHODS
• WITH-OPEN-FILE-DOES-NOT-EXIST Proposal STREAM-IS-NIL passed, Jun 89 X3J13
• WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING-APPEND-STYLE
• WITH-PACKAGE-ITERATOR-END

Non-passed

Issues that failed, were withdrawn, or were still in discussion when the draft froze, recovered from the X3J13 committee mail archive.

• ALIST-NIL
• APPEND-ATOM
• APPEND-DOTTED
• BACKQUOTE-COMMA-ATSIGN-DOT-COMMA
• APPEND-DOTTED
• BIT-ARRAY-FUNCTIONS failed (with amendments) Jun89 X3J13
• COERCE-INCOMPLETE motion died for lack of second; withdrawn
• COMPILER-WARNING-BREAK
• DECLARE-TYPE-EXACT
• DECLARE-TYPE-USER-DEFINED
• DEFAULT-CASE squashed by Cleanup Committee chairman
• DEFINITION-FUNCTIONS
• DEFSTRUCT-ACCESS-FUNCTIONS
• DEFSTRUCT-CONSTRUCTOR-OPTIONS Failed
• DEFSYSTEM Failed
• DELETE-NONEXISTENT-FILE
• DIRECTORY-DOES-TOO-MUCH For Internal Discussion
• ELIMINATE FORCED CONSING
• ENCOURAGE NO SIDE-EFFECT GARBAGE
• ENVIRONMENT-ENQUIRY didn't get to; withdrawn
• EQUALP-GENERIC *** Deferred to editorial committee: license to add
• ERROR-CHECKING-IN-NUMBERS-CHAPTER For Internal Discussion
• ERROR-NOT-HANDLED withdrawn; made editorial advice
• EVAL-DEFEATS-LINKER
• EXPORT-COORDINATION
• EXPORT-IMPORT For Internal Discussion
• EXPT-ZERO-ZERO For Internal Discussion
• FILE-LENGTH-PATHNAME
• FILE-WRITE-DATE-IF-NOT-EXISTS
• FORMAT-NEGATIVE-PARAMETERS
• FORMAT-PLURALS not submitted, will not be considered
• FORMAT-ROUNDING
• FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-LIST
• FUNCTION-COERCE-TIME withdrawn at Mar-89; voted to request editor to
• GCD-NO-ARGUMENTS
• GET-MACRO-CHARACTER-DISPATCHING
• HASH-TABLE-GC
• HASH-TABLE-PRINTED-PREPRESENTATION didn't get to it; withdrawn
• IF-BODY
• IGNORE-ERRORS
• IGNORE-VARIABLE didn't get to it by Mar 89; withdrawn
• INPUT-STREAM-P-CLOSED
• INPUT-STREAM-P-EXAMPLE
• INSPECT-RETURN-VALUE Failed
• KEYWORD-KEYWORDS For Internal Discussion
• LAMBDA-FORM
• LAMBDA-LIST-DUPLICATES For Internal Discussion
• LEAST-POSITIVE-SINGLE-FLOAT-NORMALIZATION
• LIST-TYPE-SPECIFIER
• MACRO-DECLARATIONS
• MACRO-SPECIAL-FORMS (no proposal, not ready)
• MAKE-CONCATENATED-STREAM-EXAMPLE
• MAKE-STRING-FILL-POINTER withdrawn by consensus Mar 89 meeting
• OPEN-KEYWORDS
• OUTPUT-STREAM-P-EXAMPLE
• PARSE-BODY
• PATHNAME-CANONICAL-TYPE For Internal Discussion
• PATHNAME-EXTENSIONS withdrawn at Jun89 X3J13
• PATHNAME-SYSTEM-TYPE failed, Jun 89 X3J13
• PATHNAME-TYPE-UNSPECIFIC
• PLUS-ABNORMAL
• PRINT-PRETTY-HOOK For Internal Discussion
• PROCLAIM-LEXICAL amended, then failed, Mar 89 X3J13
• PROCLAIM-SCOPE For Internal Discussion
• PROMPT-FOR
• READ-BYTE-FAST
• READ-DELIMITED-LIST-EOF awaiting submission
• REMF-MULTIPLE
• REQUIRED-KEYWORD-ARGUMENTS
• RETURN-VALUES-UNSPECIFIED
• SEQUENCE-EXTREME-SEARCH
• SEQUENCE-FUNCTIONS-EXCLUDE-ARRAYS
• SETF-OPTIONAL-ARGUMENTS For Internal Discussion
• SHARPSIGN-BACKSLASH-BITS
• SHARPSIGN-PLUS-MINUS-NUMBER
• SINGLE-FLOAT-NON-PORTABLE
• SPECIAL-FORM-SHADOW
• SPECIAL-VARIABLE-TEST For Internal Discussion
• STANDARD-CLASS-OVERHEAD
• STANDARD-VALUE For Internal Discussion
• STREAM-DEFINITION-BY-USER For discussion and evaluation; not proposed for inclusion in the standard at this time.
• STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE-EXAMPLES
• STREAM-INFO
• STRUCTURE-DEFINITION-ACCESS
• STRUCTURE-INFO For Internal Discussion
• SUBTYPEP-EMPTY-NIL For Internal Discussion
• SUBTYPEP-ENVIRONMENT missing writeup, didn't get to, withdraw
• SYMBOL-MACROFLET For Internal Discussion
• TAGBODY-CONTENTS
• TAIL-RECURSION-OPTIMIZATION dropped somehow? Needs review?
• TRACE-ERROR For Internal Discussion
• TRACE-CLOS
• TRUENAME-SYNTAX-ONLY
• TYPE-SPECIFIER-PREDICATE
• VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND-DEFAULT
• WRITE-NEWLINE