CLHS: Selected Highlights

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## Selected Highlights

Here are some selected points of interest within the document. This is not a complete table of contents and in fact does not even follow the chapter structuring; if you want to follow the normal chapter arrangement, use the chapter index.

- Definitions of Notation
  - Notational Conventions
  - Interpreting Dictionary Entries
  - Sections Not Formally Part Of This Standard
- Terminology
  - Glossary
  - Error Terminology
  - Compiler Terminology
- Conformance Criteria
  - Conformance
  - Language Extensions
  - Language Subsets
  - Deprecated Language Features
- Defined Names
  - Symbols in COMMON-LISP package
  - Defined Types
- Read/Print Syntax
  - Standard Macro Characters
  - Sharpsign Macro Characters
  - Default Print-Object Methods
- Evaluation and Compilation
  - Evaluation
  - Compilation
    - Compilation Semantics
    - File Compilation
    - Literal Objects in Compiled Files
  - Declarations
  - Lambda Lists
- Types
  - Objects
    - Structures
    - Conditions
  - Symbols and Packages
  - Numbers
  - Characters and Strings
  - Conses and Lists
  - Arrays and Sequences
  - Hash Tables
- Input and Output
  - Files
    - Filenames
    - Streams
  - Reader
  - Printer
  - Pretty Printer
  - Formatted Output
- Programming Environment
  - Top level loop
  - Debugging Utilities
  - Environment Inquiry
- Background
  - Scope and Purpose
  - History
  - Credits (flat text version)
  - Credits (hypertext version)
  - Referenced Publications

In addition to the specification itself, this document is cross-referenced with the X3J13 design documents used to produce it.

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