:default
from the header of a 1- or 2-dimensional array
Major Section: ARRAYS
Example Form: (default 'delta1 a) General Form: (default name alist)where
name
is an arbitrary object and alist
is a 1- or
2-dimensional array. This function returns the contents of the
:default
field of the header of alist
. When aref1
or aref2
is used
to obtain a value for an index (or index pair) not bound in alist
,
the default value is returned instead. Thus, the array alist
may be
thought of as having been initialized with the default value.
default
operates in virtually constant time if alist
is the semantic
value of name
. See arrays.