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READ-FROM-STRING Error in all lisp implementations 11 28 (4/15/2011 11:57:32 AM) comp.lang.lisp I'm seeing this misbehaviour in all lisp implementations: I believe (read-from-string "1.4M" :end 3) should return a floating point object. However the following behaviour is consistently observed in the re... Madhu

[misguided?] New CLOS techniques: Copying objects 28 26 (12/1/2008 10:11:52 AM) comp.lang.lisp (:I put `misguided' in the subject to catch Kenny's attention:) The situation is not new. One wishes to create a new object which is slightly different from another object, i.e. where a few slots have differe... Madhu

search-lists 4 29 (6/9/2008 2:13:36 PM) comp.lang.lisp Helu CMUCL has a nifty search-list extension to pathnames[1] which lets you specify a bunch of directories to to look up a file in. [See the last last paragraph in the full quote below] Did this concept ori... Madhu

Question for FORMAT Gurus: Layout Justification 2 21 (11/11/2007 4:37:45 PM) comp.lang.lisp [There was a related thread this September from which the example is taken. The FORMAT facility used here is in specified in 22.3.6.2 of the spec] (defvar $words '("Four" "score" "and" "seven" "years" "ago"... Madhu

2 Comments regarding restarts in the CL Condition system 14 26 (1/26/2007 4:43:37 AM) comp.lang.lisp Helu, I'd like to pose the following two points that I understand of the condition system -- 1. The restart function (i.e. the code executed when the restart is invoked) does not have access to the conditio... Madhu

Setting a value programatically given the name of an accessor. 7 21 (1/24/2007 12:13:06 PM) comp.lang.lisp Helu. Given the name of an accessor, how best to set the value programatically? For example: * (defstruct struct1 slot1) STRUCT1 * (setq $a (make-struct1)) #S(STRUCT1 :SLOT1 NIL) * (defun setslot (object sl... Madhu

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Relative pathname completion in SLIME 3 8 (3/24/2013 2:11:30 PM) comp.lang.lisp In case anybody else also wondered how to stop slime from auto-completing pathnames to their absolute representations, I've found a fix: (defun slime-maybe-complete-as-filename () "If point is at a strin... max471 (15)

export outside defpackage 5 28 (2/6/2013 7:03:08 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, I am wondering what the best practice is for dealing with exports outside DEFPACKAGE. The situation is the following: I use SWIG to generate an interface to a C library. At the beginning of the (au... tkpapp (975)

Rob Warnock Usenet archive 5 30 (2/4/2013 3:33:20 PM) comp.lang.lisp I've created a new searchable Usenet archive of one of my favorite Usenet authors, Rob Warnock: http://xach.com/rpw3/articles/ Enjoy! Zach ... xach (862)

What is better: explicit :export in defpackage or explicit import after use-package? 2 15 (1/31/2013 1:14:30 PM) comp.lang.lisp Or would you let it depend upon the use cases? In my case, I am developing a package which is used to control different ot= her packages, in order to have some high-level control over the development= pro... jurgen.defurne1 (118)

sorting cdr of form in Emacs/SLIME? 2 0 (5/16/2013 9:43:21 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, I like to sort some forms alphabetically, especially in package/system definitions. Eg instead of (asdf:load-systems "cl-slice" "let-plus" "alexandria") I ... tkpapp (975)

CL-Digest (or tell me a better name) 11 16 (1/27/2013 4:05:53 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hello everyone. I'm starting a collaborative site where I'll write some tutorials, code examples, articles, etc. I'm also starting a book called "Web Development in Common Lisp in 15 Hours". English isn't... amherag (19)

defmethod inside a conditional needs (with-compilation-unit () ...) around the load and the compile 10 27 (1/11/2013 5:03:54 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi All, So, I have code which (after macroexpansion) ends up looking something like= this:=20 (WHEN (OR (NOT (FBOUNDP 'GDL-SLOTS::MIDPOINT)) (NOT (FIND-METHOD (SYMBOL-FUNCTION ... david.cooper (5)

why has lisp not supplanted perl python ruby php lua etc for web? is the procedural with sql db pardigm faster? 23 31 (1/6/2013 11:21:41 AM) comp.lang.lisp and not to be avoided? I would think prevayler in ram data with string linsk to blobs on disk would beat all the above???? esp nowadays why not more lisp stratups kicking the shit outa facebook php c... visploveslisp (160)

is it possible to split strings in lisp? 19 21 (12/10/2012 8:43:17 AM) comp.lang.lisp Is it possible to split string like this: "[pd][dp]" into something like this: ("pd" "dp") ... ruby.object (130)

time packages 9 1 (5/16/2013 2:26:12 AM) comp.lang.lisp I've been spending some quality time with encode-universal-time, decode-universal-time, and the joy of time zones. I need to store time ranges for multiple time zones in a database, update and retrieve ... patrick6539 (25)