Announcement: CL-GD039 (8/26/2003 8:15:23 PM) CL-GD is a library for Common Lisp which provides an interface to the GD Graphics Library for the dynamic creation of images. It is based on UFFI and should thus be portable to all CL implementations supported ... edi(402)
Web applications and conditions1432 (8/25/2003 2:38:11 PM) I'm a Lisp novice, working on one of my first web applications. I'd like to compose the program such that conditions indicate when there's an issue that needs correcting, and it's possible to do recovery withou... xach(862)
Book for Free: Allen's "Anatomy of Lisp"040 (8/26/2003 1:02:19 AM) Have a very good copy of John Allen's "Anatomy of Lisp" to whomever wants it. It's free, but you'll have to pay the shipping cost. If you're interested, email me at: sashank dot varma at vanderbilt dot edu I... none2722(94)
[ANN] macho 0.2 released035 (8/25/2003 4:44:36 PM) I've just released version 0.2 of macho, my mail archive manager. Highlights of this release: * Multi-level message quoting highlighting. * Rewritten & slightly less hacky multipart message parser. * More memo... miles1(3)
Introduction to Oflow128 (8/24/2003 7:28:39 PM) I hope this posting does not violate the rules of this group. Since this is a language group, I believe many regular users are also interested in computer languages in general. I would like to invite those inte... linli(8)
Syntax Question825 (8/24/2003 8:27:33 PM) In the code below, the call (in caps) to helper gives me the error "Variable HELPER has no value". Am working on transitioning from scheme to lisp. Could someone explain why it believes helper has no value? T... gte793z(2)
When programs can be data and vice versa926 (8/22/2003 7:52:32 AM) Ah, the joys of seeing the rest of the world trying to catch up with lisp. According to this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32452.html people are now working with XML machines. The ... christian.lynbech1(4)
newbie question about loading files944 (8/21/2003 9:18:37 PM) I don't understand how Common Lisp finds a file when you call the 'load' function. Could somebody kindly explain how this works? Thanks. ... jackwidman(7)
Announce: New Web BBS Dedicated to Lisp and Lambda Languages1169 (8/17/2003 3:42:17 PM) howdy everyone! i setup a new web based (phpBB) BBS dedicated solely to the discussion of Lisp and other lambda languages. http://www.lambdawizards.com/lwBBS/index.php since i'm unaware of any other BBS the ... file13(4)
Macro with syntactic tree vs. Macro as source string.234 (8/23/2003 12:07:20 PM) Let's explore what could be done in other languages to implement macros. They don't have accessible syntactic tree, so let's assume there is only source strings. After all, even in C (actually seen... spam173(586)