Re: display property strangeness

[Nick Roberts]

 > When the defun is read, the Lisp object "a" is produced.  That Lisp
 > object gets evaluated when the function is called, which returns the
 > identical constant stored in the function cell.
 > 
 > I do not know what Miles meant by "bog standard".  The above behavior
 > does indeed seem standard for Lisp dialects.

Being English, thats the only part I find easy to understand: "bog standard"
means almost universal or most common. As an English/British colloquialism,
it probably doesn't need to be documented in the manual :)

Thanks for the explanation,

Nick