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Thank you so much. I was really struggling because I didn't know what I needed to be learning how to do. Thanks for telling me about flet, and how to return the list at the end! Also thanks for explaining to me about append versus push. It's really hard to google LISP stuff sometimes because you tur...

Hi there. This is my code: (defun cartesian-product (m n) (defun helper (x) (setf k n) (dotimes (i (length n)) (setq j (nth i k)) (print (cons x (cons j nil))))) (mapcar #'helper m)) The output for '(a b) and '(c d) is (A C) (A D) (B C) (B D) (NIL NIL) After much wrestling, it does make a Cartesian ...

Good point about just number comparing being necessary, but I guess I'd like to write a proper gui for this eventually, so starting with a proper deck would be handy.

Thanks everyone, I can now see the next steps!

TG

I guess I'm thinking too real world (like java). I'm really hesitant about posting the whole problem because I have had a bad experience before where someone wrote the whole code for me, said "here" and killed all the joy in solving the problem. (I haven't learnt to learn well from code.) ...

Hi everyone, I'm learning Lisp this year. I'm trying to learn it by writing a simple card game ( with the possibility of writing some AI to help me prepare for an AI course next semester.) So, I'm very new to lisp and really don't have much idea what to do! I come from a java background so think in ...

just checking that you know that localhost isn't accessible by other people, but just you, right?

Conrad Barski calls macros "SPELS"
http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html

A more direct link: http://www.lisperati.com/no_macros.html

I found it an easy to understand read.