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Okay, I feel really foolish. The (print) statement... yeah... Case closed, sorry everybody *facepalm*

I see how your program works, and I'll modify mine to be more like that, perhaps having the user enter symbols instead of functions. Here's my code in case you're curious though. "phrases.txt" is one big long parenthesized list of sayings. (progn (setq list (read (open "phrases.txt&qu...

Hello all, I'm trying to write a simple program, but I can't seem to get around the fact that (format) returns NIL. Therefore my program output always looks like this: Welcome. Please enter your name. NILwinifred ...as opposed to what I'd like, which is this: Welcome. Please enter your name. winifre...