<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>Chapter 1. Overview</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="ecl.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The ECL manual"><link rel="up" href="pt01.html" title="Part I. Standards"><link rel="prev" href="pt01.html" title="Part I. Standards"><link rel="next" href="ch02.html" title="Chapter 2. Evaluation and compilation"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 1. Overview</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pt01.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part I. Standards</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 1. Overview"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="ansi.overview"></a>Chapter 1. Overview</h2></div></div></div><p><span class="application">ECL</span> supports all Common-Lisp data types exactly as defined in the <a class="xref" href="bi01.html#bib.ANSI">ANSI</a>. All functions and macros are expected to behave as described in that document and in the HyperSpec <a class="xref" href="bi01.html#bib.HyperSpec">CLHS</a> which is the online version of <a class="xref" href="bi01.html#bib.ANSI">ANSI</a>. This part of the book is simply a complement to those official documents and its role is to describes implementation dependent features, such as </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>Platform dependent limits.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Behavior which is marked as <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">implementation specific</span>”</span> in the standard.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Some corner cases which are not described in <a class="xref" href="bi01.html#bib.ANSI">ANSI</a>.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>The philosophy behind certain implementation choices.</p></li></ul></div><p> </p><p>The following sections are organized following the structure in the online version of the standard <a class="xref" href="bi01.html#bib.HyperSpec">CLHS</a>: each chapter complements the one with the same name in the standard.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pt01.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="pt01.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Part I. Standards </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 2. Evaluation and compilation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
