1.1 Introduction

The Dylan language is described in The Dylan Reference Manual by Andrew Shalit (Addison-Wesley, 1996). We call this book "the DRM" hereafter.

Functional Developer provides an implementation of the Dylan language described by the DRM, with a few exceptions that are documented in Section 1.4 on page 7 of this chapter.

Functional Developer provides the Dylan language in the dylan module of the dylan library.

As of the 2.0 release, Functional Developer has joined forces with the other major implementor of Dylan, the Gwydion Dylan Development Cooperative, to provide a set of common extensions to the Dylan language (as defined by the DRM). These extensions are portable across implementations and are either built in to the dylan library or are available in a separate library, common-extensions. This chapter is an introduction to the language extensions.

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Common Dylan and Functional Extensions - 31 Mar 00