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format tilde-asterisk 2 52 (5/5/2008 8:25:24 PM) comp.lang.lisp What is the expected return value of this form? (format nil "'~A' <= logdate and logdate < '~:*'" 1) I was expecting: "'1' <= logdate and logdate < '1'" but I get "'1' <= logdate and logdate ... Russell

restart question 2 32 (7/11/2005 6:07:48 PM) comp.lang.lisp Suppose I want to provide the user with an aditional restart when permission to open a file is denied. In particular, I want to attempt to check out the file from version control if the user selects the resta... Russell

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f python? 50 39 (4/8/2012 11:11:20 AM) comp.lang.lisp hi guys, sorry am feeling a bit prolifit lately. today's show, is: =E3=80=88Fuck Python=E3=80=89 http://xahlee.org/comp/fuck_python.html ------------------------------------ Fuck Python By Xah Lee, 2012-04-... xahlee (818)

Best Mac Lisp implementation for programming newbie? 11 20 (3/19/2012 11:13:49 PM) comp.lang.lisp I've been leading a beginning programmer through Touretzky's "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Programming." We've reached chapter 3 and will soon need to move from paper-and-pencil programming t... eefacm (9)

Newbie, dumb question about concurrency and lisp 14 129 (12/26/2010 1:55:56 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, very new here, just thought I'd make a dumb observation, and then ask a dumb question on top of it. I'm no lisper, but was interested in it and was looking at some lisp code. For some reason it sort o... pineapple

ASDF sucks 7 203 (6/14/2010 12:50:52 AM) comp.lang.lisp There, I feel better. kt -- http://www.stuckonalgebra.com "The best Algebra tutorial program I have seen... in a class by itself." Macworld ... Kenneth

Mandatory initialization of a slot 30 93 (1/10/2010 7:44:10 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hello, I have defined a class where a slot *must* be initialized when creating instances: (define-condition modular-ring-without-generator (algebraic-error) () ) (defclass 'modular-ring (ring) ( (... Norbert_Paul

Hoy to copy a struct that represents a tree. 27 37 (10/22/2009 3:09:05 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hello all, I'm trying to do one exercise from Paul Graham's "Ansi Common Lisp": The thing is that I don't know if I'm mistaken in the copy (the function called real-copy-my-tree) or in the comparison ( the fu... shanatorio (14)

DEFSTRUCT and lexical environment 442 59 (10/9/2009 5:59:48 PM) comp.lang.lisp While working on the :include option, I came across a part of the spec that is silent on the lexical environment of the included struct. Here's an example: Start with (let ((x 99)) (defstruct foo (a (+ x 2))... jerryboetje (14)

How Do CL's Macros Differ from Scheme's? 45 36 (10/2/2009 11:20:59 PM) comp.lang.lisp I understand that Scheme has macros, but that they are not as powerful as CL's. Is this true? How do they differ? ... Proponent (34)

Syntactic Abstraction under the New Model 32 28 (8/26/2009 4:08:56 AM) comp.lang.scheme Some people have tried to suggest that DEFMACRO or other "low-level" macro systems should exist in the base or core Scheme standard and that SYNTAX-RULES should be relegated to a separate library. I wholehe... arcfide (659)

Anonymous packages 52 27 (8/24/2009 6:43:47 PM) comp.lang.lisp Some time ago there were some discussions on this NG about CL's side- effecting reader, and its potential drawbacks. I do like the CL reader, packages, and related stuff. However, I was thinking whether the int... alessiostalla (364)