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Common Lisp has a standard, which was initially published in 1994 as an ANSI standard. The Common Lisp HyperSpec, short CLHS, provided by LispWorks is an often used HTML documentation, which is derived from the standard document. The HyperSpec can also be downloaded and locally used. Common Lisp d...

The ANSI CL standard uses an extended EBNF syntax notation. The documentation duplicated on Stackoverflow should use the same syntax notation to reduce confusion. Example: specialized-lambda-list::= ({var | (var parameter-specializer-name)}* [&optional {var | (var [initform [supp...

This book is known as CLtL2. This is the second edition of the book Common Lisp the Language. It was published in 1990, before the ANSI CL standard was final. It took the original language definition from the first edition (published in 1984) and described all changes in the standardization process...

On CLiki, a Wiki for Common Lisp and free Common Lisp software, a list of Proposed ANSI Revisions and Clarifications is being maintained. Since the Common Lisp standard has not changed since 1994, users have found several problems with the specification document. These are documented on the CLiki p...

The Common Lisp Quick Reference is a document which can be printed and bound as a booklet in various layouts to have a printed quick reference for Common Lisp.

GNU Emacs uses a special format for documentation: info. The Common Lisp standard has been converted to the Texinfo format, which can be used to create documentation browsable with the info reader in GNU Emacs. See here: dpans2texi.el converts the TeX sources of the draft ANSI Common Lisp standard...