Re: [Gcl-devel] Two Windows ANSI crash examples

[Paul F. Dietz]

> > This works, but I was wondering whether there was a way in lisp to
> > make *internal-error-parms* only visible inside this function, yet
> > 'special'/persistent, i.e. like a static local variable in C.
>
>
> You can do this:
>
> (defun clcs-universal-error-handler-generator ()
>   (let ((internal-error-parms ...))
>      #'(lambda (...) ...)))

This doesn't make the variable special, though.

If you want a special variable that is only visible in these
few functions, consider putting in off in some package of its
own, or even using an uninterned symbol (using Lisp's print-circle
representation to have the same symbol appear in its various
uses.)

        Paul