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Re:CL21: An experimental project redesigning Common Lisp by jimbokun on Friday February 20, 2015 @11:33AM (#9081155)
I think the * 's around * hash* is just a convention indicating a global variable in Common Lisp.

(Edit: trying to escape HN formatting conventions.)

Re:CL21: An experimental project redesigning Common Lisp by jwmc on Friday February 20, 2015 @03:14PM (#9082686)
Dynamic variable, rather than global, but yes - it's just a convention.