Type Specifier eql

Compound Type Specifier Kind:

Combining.

Compound Type Specifier Syntax:

Compound Type Specifier Arguments:

object—an object.

Compound Type Specifier Description:

Represents the type Replaced per Boyer/Kaufmann/Moore #6 (by X3J13 vote at May 4-5, 1994 meeting). whose only \term{element} is \param{object}.of all x for which (eql object x) is true.

The argument object is required. The object can be *, but if so it denotes itself (the symbol *) and does not represent an unspecified value. The symbol eql is not valid as an atomic type specifier. Laubsch thinks this second part is gratuitous (and I agree). -kmp 20-Jan-92 and, specifically, it is not an abbreviation for \f{(eql *)}.