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Use paredit.el or something like it and you'll type half the parentheses.

Thanks for the link Ramarren. I don't recall seeing how to do it in that chapter. I've tried funcall etc. I'll have another look. Is it possible to structure lists of functions and then call those functions from the list with a function like nth or assoc? Sure, but you didn't make a list of functio...

BIOS wrote:Is it possible to structure lists of functions and then call those functions from the list with a function like nth or assoc?

Sure, but you didn't make a list of functions.

I have a simple example readin function (defun read-setup (thefile) (with-open-file (stream thefile) (loop for line = (read stream nil 'end) until (eq line 'end) do (print (list (coerce line 'integer)))))) That just reads in some integers into a file, Im pretty sure it works, because it was an exam...

PCL is a good book for people with some programming experience. Be forewarned: you'll try to apply macros in many situations where they're not particularly necessary or appropriate. Any time you think you need a macro, try first to write it as a function instead. Often, wrapping a function with a ma...

Hi, I'm learning this brilliant language and i'm using lisp-in-a-box. One "problem" i have is when want to save what i write. Do i really need to create a new file and write the code again in that file? Is there not a more effective way? Don't write code in the REPL. It's just for throwaw...

;; Edited the indentation to make some structural issues clearer. (defun sorter A (cond (null A) nil) (eq (difference ((car a) (greatest A)) 0) (cons (car A) (sorter cdr A))) (t ( sorter (cons (cdr A) (car A)))) ;; Where did these guys below come from? ))) Is it totally wrong? I'm sorry to say that...

Hey, I'm trying to convince ESR to use Lisp instead of LISP in the hacker howto. However, I can't find any citation to why Lisp refers to modern dialects, and LISP to old ones. I don't think the difference is related to language versions. It's rather a matter of the current orthography. It seems ES...

I guess I'm thinking too real world (like java). Probably a mistake in Java too. I don't think it much matters what representation you choose for this, although you'll probably be happier if you store the rank in a form that can be compared without a lot of fuss. The cons cell representation that N...

lists will probably be implemented as arrays in most cases You can pretty much rely on this never happening*. Your Lisp is not going to swap your data structures around. It's going to assume you know what you're doing and picked lists for a reason. * The exception being if you are using a strange l...