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Aha.

Thanks!

Hi all, I've read somewhere recently that some people use CLISP for development but not for production. Ignoring the licensing, is this due to the fact that an interpreted implementation of CL is much friendlier for development than a compiled one? In a compiled one you need to recompile all forms t...

Cool, thanks for your clear replies. Now I understand the issue correctly.

Hi all, I'm learning Lisp by reading Practical Common Lisp. I have a question regarding gensym. The book presents on chapter 9 the macro with-gensyms: (defmacro with-gensyms ((&rest names) &body body) `(let ,(mapcar (lambda (x) `(,x (gensym))) names) ,@body)) It's fine. I understand how it w...