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Register now for the International Lisp Conference 0 33 (3/1/2009 12:06:32 AM) comp.lang.scheme The word "Lisp" as used in the name "International Lisp Conference" includes any language in the Lisp family, broadly construed, and certainly including Scheme. Register now! Early registration ends after Mar... Daniel

International Lisp Conference: Register now! Early registration ends after March 1. 2 25 (2/27/2009 9:53:59 AM) comp.lang.lisp Register now! Early registration ends after March 1! THE INTERNATIONAL LISP CONFERENCE, 2009 Sunday, March 22 through Wednesday, March 23 The Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA. Present... Daniel

Further reading 3 43 (1/19/2009 9:14:05 PM) comp.lang.lisp You say you've read all of "Practical Common Lisp". That's great! I don't know of any book that's a sequel, or generally about "advanced Lisp". If you want to learn about some specific area, post here about ... Dan

Unhandled conditions signaled in cleanup handlers 1 32 (1/19/2009 9:06:13 PM) comp.lang.lisp By "cleanup handler" I mean the rest of the subforms of unwind-protect after the first one. The following is mistaken: I quoted again the undefined-behavior example from the description of THROW: (c... Dan

Replies 3 33 (1/19/2009 8:40:28 PM) comp.lang.lisp blandest: That's nice and short. In the Olde Days, we would have criticized the storage allocation done by the concatentation, but these days it's not a big deal. I wish Common Lisp had a more succinct way to... Dan

Look out for daemons 0 36 (1/19/2009 4:15:56 PM) comp.lang.lisp An important point to remember is that using slot-value or with-slots will go directly to the slot rather than running the accessor methods, and so if you have, say, a :before daemon on a slot, it won't get cal... Dan

Language definition 9 35 (1/19/2009 3:59:58 PM) comp.lang.lisp The key issue here is whether two uses of backquote can return the same result. The HyperSpec, as I read it, is less than 100% clear on this. In the "summarize formally" section, item 3, it says that the top ... Dan

Not clear what it's for 0 24 (1/19/2009 3:31:57 PM) comp.lang.lisp I agree with Rob that you might as well just write out all the defvars. Another slight advantage of doing that is that in your IDE, the "find the definition of this variable" command can position you are exactl... Dan

Looking for short/lightning talks for the International Lisp Conference 0 56 (1/19/2009 3:10:53 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi. I'm looking for some good short/lightning talks for the International Lisp Conference 2009 (March 22-25 at MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA; see ilc09.org). If you, or anyone who you think might be coming to the... Dan

International Lisp Conference, 2009 - Deadline extension to Dec 16 1 32 (12/13/2008 2:02:50 PM) comp.lang.lisp Because of timing and technical difficulties, the submission deadline for the 2009 International Lisp Conference has been extended from December 9, 2009, to December 16, 2009. For information about the confere... Dan

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Making Lisp popular - can it be done? 319 94 (12/23/2008 11:08:13 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, I'm really new to Lisp. I had heard of it before and got the impression of a dead language with an exotic syntax and no real use. My opinion was changed by Paul Graham's article Beating the averages. I st... mihaylov.mihail (27)

Performance difference between struct and CLOS? 31 40 (1/9/2009 9:45:32 PM) comp.lang.lisp I'm stilly rather new to Lisp, so please bear with me. I've read through most of PCL by now, have been attending my local meetups, and lurking on c.l.l... I'd appreciate a little help filling in the gaps. Bas... james177 (170)

Books (Or Websites) for further reading? 12 36 (1/14/2009 1:05:39 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hello, I'm a programmer with experiences in various C-like languages, and I've recently discovered Lisp. I know how to program with it and all that things, and now I want some further reading. Not only Lisp, b... ulrich.moritz (2)

Rationale behind unwind-protect and double errors 24 19 (1/15/2009 8:18:27 PM) comp.lang.lisp When in unwind-protect both the protected-form and the cleanup-form produce an error or just throw, Common Lisp (e.g. GCL) gives preference to the cleanup-form and not the protected-form. Is there some rationa... ulrich (89)

reading file to list 58 45 (1/16/2009 8:29:37 PM) comp.lang.lisp OK, I want to create a nested list in Lisp (always of only integers) from a text file, such that each line in the text file would be represented as a sublist in the 'imported' list. Like this: (defun make-l... drkrause (33)

newLISP is simple, terse, and well documented 99 44 (1/18/2009 8:17:28 PM) comp.lang.lisp A Look at newLISP: page 1: http://www.newmobilecomputing.com/story/20728/A_Look_at_newLISP page 2: http://www.newmobilecomputing.com/story/20728/A_Look_at_newLISP/page2/ page 3: http://www.newmobilecomputing.co... simple.language.yahoo (4)

Language definition 9 35 (1/19/2009 3:59:58 PM) comp.lang.lisp The key issue here is whether two uses of backquote can return the same result. The HyperSpec, as I read it, is less than 100% clear on this. In the "summarize formally" section, item 3, it says that the top ... dlw (155)

Further reading 3 43 (1/19/2009 9:14:05 PM) comp.lang.lisp You say you've read all of "Practical Common Lisp". That's great! I don't know of any book that's a sequel, or generally about "advanced Lisp". If you want to learn about some specific area, post here about ... dlw (155)

Lisp on the JVM 28 28 (1/19/2009 9:37:33 PM) comp.lang.lisp http://www.is-research.de/info/vmlanguages/lisp.html cough -- http://lispm.dyndns.org/ ... joswig8642 (2198)

International Lisp Conference: Register now! Early registration ends after March 1. 2 25 (2/27/2009 9:53:59 AM) comp.lang.lisp Register now! Early registration ends after March 1! THE INTERNATIONAL LISP CONFERENCE, 2009 Sunday, March 22 through Wednesday, March 23 The Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA. Present... dlw (155)