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by Alexander Lehmann
Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:57 am
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: Light Lispful Linux
Replies: 5
Views: 11784

Re: Light Lispful Linux

Nice! Thanks and happy xmas :)
by Alexander Lehmann
Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:25 am
Forum: Books and Resources
Topic: Yet another Lisp related screencast
Replies: 10
Views: 47187

Re: Yet another Lisp related screencast

This basically defines a new setf expander. You might want to look up defun, defsetf and the like in the CL HyperSpec for a more detailed unterstanding. However, in the case of the matrix it allows an aref-like access of the matrices elements both for reading and writing.
by Alexander Lehmann
Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:37 pm
Forum: Books and Resources
Topic: Yet another Lisp related screencast
Replies: 10
Views: 47187

Re: Yet another Lisp related screencast

Yes, definitely :)
by Alexander Lehmann
Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:43 am
Forum: Books and Resources
Topic: Yet another Lisp related screencast
Replies: 10
Views: 47187

Yet another Lisp related screencast

Hi there, because I liked the excellent Lisp screencasts of Marco Baringer and Rainer Joswig and due to the lack of additional freely available stuff like the beforementioned, I've thought about creating comprehensive tutorial-like screencasts myself. So, during the past summer I began with the crea...
by Alexander Lehmann
Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:29 am
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: SBCL 1.0.19 released
Replies: 6
Views: 17701

Re: SBCL 1.0.19 released

Just head over to the SF download section via the link that's provided on sbcl's homepage. The same "problem" happened to me not too long ago ;)
by Alexander Lehmann
Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:06 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: website mini-logo (the one in the toolbar)
Replies: 24
Views: 44432

Re: website mini-logo (the one in the toolbar)

Wodin wrote:haha

Reminds me of "The Scream"
(e.g. http://colombianflowers.files.wordpress ... scream.jpg)
Good one :)
by Alexander Lehmann
Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:31 am
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: CLOS usage
Replies: 22
Views: 55152

Re: CLOS usage

Thanks Geoff. As I totally agree with what you've written, IMO the "problem" was just due to my misusage of the term "method". The origin of "my" part of the discussion was where I stated that I preferred "functions" over "methods" wherever possible....
by Alexander Lehmann
Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:52 pm
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: CLOS usage
Replies: 22
Views: 55152

Re: CLOS usage

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the major difference between "functions" and "methods" -- with respect to Lisp and/or CLOS -- was that for methods, CLOS first looks up the most suitable (specialized) version of a method in regard to the given parameters, where...
by Alexander Lehmann
Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:07 am
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: CLOS usage
Replies: 22
Views: 55152

Re: CLOS usage

Hm, I like CLOS and fairly often use objects. However, I prefer using "regular" functions instead of methods wherever methods aren't explicitly neccessary. In CLOS, you are still using functions. The best way to think about CLOS is that what you're writing is generic functions. (This is c...
by Alexander Lehmann
Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:03 am
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: Strings, characters, and binary encodings
Replies: 9
Views: 26715

Re: Strings, characters, and binary encodings

Maybe this was a misunderstanding. Of course I see your point, however I'd not like READ-BYTE to behave in a way other than reading a byte from a given stream (because that's what I think it is supposed to do). Instead I'd prefer another standard solution for the mentioned problem. This way or that ...