Contents

• Introduction
• Changes to System Features
  • Debugging and Evaluation
  • Top Level and Saved Workspaces
  • IEEE NaN's and infinites
  • New Garbage Collector and Memory Requirements
  • Missing and Non-Numerical Data in Graphs
  • Working Directories and Directory Function
  • Version Information
  • Content Backgrounds
• Changes in Specific Implementations
  • Changes in the UNIX/X11 Version
  • Macintosh Changes and System 7 Support
  • Changes in the Microsoft Windows Version
• Improvements in Common Lisp Support
  • Introduction
  • Data Types
  • Scope and Extent
  • Type Specifiers
  • Program Structure
  • Predicates
  • Control Structure
  • Macros
  • Declarations
  • Symbols
  • Packages
  • Numbers
  • Characters
  • Sequences
  • Lists
  • Hash Tables
  • Arrays
  • Strings
  • Structures
  • The Evaluator
  • Streams
  • Input/Output
  • File System interface
  • Errors
  • Miscellaneous Features
  • Loop
  • Pretty Print
  • CLOS
  • Conditions
• Changes in the Statistical System
  • New Random Number Generators
  • Changes in the Object System
    • Changes in the Linear Algera System
  • Other Changes
• Deleted Functions
• The Step Function
• References
• About this document ...