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Overlooked Featues in Common Lisp

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Pixel_Outlaw

#1 Fri May 16, 2014 5:14 am

Common Lisp is a fairly big language.
I'm trying to get an idea of features I might have missed while reading books.
Does anyone have features of the language that they feel are often overlooked but really neat to know?

marcoxa

#2 Fri May 16, 2014 8:34 am

Re: Overlooked Featues in Common Lisp

One of my favorites is DEFSTRUCT constructors. I blogged about it some time ago (gosh! quite some time ago) http://within-parens.blogspot.it/2011/0 ... ricks.html. It turns out that you can do even trickier tricks with DEFSTRUCT constructors, as Pascal Costanza just pointed out at ELS 2014.

Cheers
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MA

Marco Antoniotti

Goheeca

#3 Fri May 16, 2014 9:33 am

Re: Overlooked Featues in Common Lisp

The capabilities of an output formatting and the loop macro, which are good to explore thoroughly. Since they are own complex DSLs in the standard CL.

cl-2dsyntax is my attempt to create a Python-like reader. My mirror of CLHS (and the dark themed version). Temporary mirrors of aferomentioned: CLHS and a dark version.

marcoxa

#4 Fri May 16, 2014 3:25 pm

Re: Overlooked Featues in Common Lisp

Yep. The PRETTY-PRINTER is quite a piece of software/api. Of course I blogged about it too

http://within-parens.blogspot.it/2011/0 ... -xhtm.html

Marco Antoniotti

Pixel_Outlaw

#5 Sat May 17, 2014 3:54 pm

Re: Overlooked Featues in Common Lisp

Some very good suggestions. I have the feeling there is far more complexity to the CLOS than there appreas too.