> actual LISP manual It's not from a LISP manual, it's from the language specification of ANSI Common Lisp. You'll probably find non-obvious wordings in many

> actual LISP manual It's not from a LISP manual, it's from the language specification of ANSI Common Lisp. You'll probably find non-obvious wordings in many programming language specifications. Don't learn a language from a spec and don't try to understand everything in a language spec, if you don't know the language.