Let us add DEFAPARAMETER to the long list of features #Emacs Lisp is missing compared to #CommonLisp. ELisp only has DEFVAR, which does not modify the binding if it already exists. Perfect to keep a state. But for a lot of top-level values, you want DEFPARAMETER, which creates or updates a binding.
Module development with DEFVAR only is really frustrating, forced to manually call SETQ each time you want to change a value.
Nicolas Martyanoff
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