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@@ -14487,10 +14487,10 @@ some form known as a and the corresponding environment is instantiated during the evaluation of that construct. There also exist bindings outside of any binding construct, in the so-called -.I global environment . +.IR "global environment" . Bindings in the global environment can be temporarily shadowed by lexically-established binding in the -.I dynamic environment . +.IR "dynamic environment" . See the Special Variables section above. Certain special symbols cannot be used as variable names, namely the @@ -22338,7 +22338,7 @@ expression. .syne .desc The -.I a-d accessors +.I "a-d accessors" provide a shorthand notation for accessing two to five levels deep into a cons-cell-based tree structure. For instance, the the equivalent of the nested function call expression @@ -50347,7 +50347,7 @@ symbols must be specified for a useful effect to take place. If exactly two symbols are specified, then, subject to error checks, .code defex makes the left symbol an -.I exception subtype +.I "exception subtype" of the right symbol. This behavior generalizes to three or more arguments: if three or more symbols @@ -60267,7 +60267,7 @@ is reduced to .strn "/" . The resulting trimmed path is the -.I "effective path" . +.IR "effective path" . If the effective path is an empty string, then .code dir-name @@ -62225,9 +62225,8 @@ type, the object inherits the type tag from the FFI type. Although .code cptr objects are conceptually non-aggregate values, corresponding to pointers, -they are -.I "de facto" -aggregates due to their implementation as references to heap objects. +they are de facto aggregates +due to their implementation as references to heap objects. When a .code cptr object is passed to a foreign function by pointer, for @@ -67836,7 +67835,7 @@ options and others. The .code *args-eff* variable holds the list of -.I "effective arguments" , +.IR "effective arguments" , which is the argument list after these transformations are applied. This variable is established and set to the same value as .code *args-full* @@ -77217,7 +77216,7 @@ Depending on whether the tentative pathname is suffixed, .code load tries to make one or more attempts to open several variations of that name. These variations are called -.I "actual paths" . +.IR "actual paths" . If any attempt fails due to an error other than non-existence, such as a permission error, then no further attempts are made; the error exception propagates to @@ -81890,7 +81889,8 @@ If denotes an incomplete array or structure type, and the .meta object-expr argument is present, then a -.I "dynamic size" is computed: the actual number of bytes required to store +.I "dynamic size" +is computed: the actual number of bytes required to store that object value as a foreign representation. The |