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@@ -4,10 +4,16 @@ Notes on Lisp style
 
 None of ANSI Common Lisp is off-limits.
 
+I think my Lisp style is rather more imperative in flavour than most
+modern Lisp programmers.  It's probably closer to historical Lisp
+practice in that regard, even though I wasn't writing Lisp back then.
+
 I make extensive use of CLOS, and macros.  On a couple of occasions I've
 made macros which use CLOS generic function dispatch to compute their
 expansions.  The parser language is probably the best example of this in
-the codebase.  I like hairy ~format~ strings.
+the codebase.
+
+I like hairy ~format~ strings.
 
 I've avoided hairy ~loop~ for the most part, not because I dislike it
 strongly but because others do and I don't find that it wins big enough
@@ -217,7 +223,7 @@ making a new structure type.  I tend to tidy up a few rough edges.
   + The default predicate always has ~-p~ appended.  If the class name
     is a single word, then I'll explicitly name the predicate with a
     simple ~p~ suffix.  For example, ~ship~ would have the predicate
-    ~shipp~, rather than ~ship-p~.  
+    ~shipp~, rather than ~ship-p~.
 
   + If there are slots I can't default then I'll usually provide a BOA
     constructor which sets them from required parameters; other slots