Re: dynamic vs. static typing

["Paul F. Dietz" <address@hidden>]

Scott McKay wrote:

> No, no, no.  In Lisp, all parameters are passed by "object
> reference" (*).  Some of these objects are mutable, so you
> can change "parts" of them.  Integers happen to be immutable,
> so there's no part of it you can change.

However, in Common Lisp, a conforming implementation is allowed
to copy numbers or characters at any time, so no conforming program
may depend on their object identity being preserved.  The
form (EQ X X) needn't evaluate to a true value if X has
a number or character value.

	Paul