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Actually, I think Lisp helps solve the semi-predicate problem in many cases. Two examples: [...] I agree with all of that, and so does MJD (the author), who mentions several ways around it, including returning multiple values, like gethash does. I just wasn't familiar with the term "semi-predi...

Many people say that learning Lisp changes the way they program in other languages. Well, I suspect that reading Higher Order Perl will change the way I program in Lisp, so I thought it deserved at least a tip of the hat here. Disclaimer: It's entirely possible that everything in HOP is already in S...

I'll bite. :) What does having used Lisp 20 years ago, or being a member of the ALU board, have to do with the response to a server going down? Surely anyone anywhere can have too few tuits to deal with some random disaster that doesn't directly affect them? Excuse me -- does that post come across ...

BTW, it's pretty interesting to see how AI-era Lisp users deal with... webserver crashes. His post was from 11 days ago. The ALU has always been an enigma to me. I'll bite. :) What does having used Lisp 20 years ago, or being a member of the ALU board, have to do with the response to a server going...

I am an editor at the Open Directory Project . [...] I have just recently become the editor of a category having to do with Lisp FAQs, Help, and Tutorials . The category has been poorly maintained in the past, and while I have added several sites to it over the past few days, I could really use you...

findinglisp wrote:I figured by the time I actually learned DocBook, I could be done with the whole thing writing in another format.

It turns out I was thinking of Texinfo anyway.

If you were going to hack out a document describing a Lisp API, which documentation format would you use? [...] Any and all suggestions welcome. I've never used it, but lots of people seem to like DocBook. I vaguely recall that it can be transformed to text. pdf, html, man page (!!) and various oth...

Specifically, in the "Common Lisp" forum, the "What are you doing in Common Lisp lately?" is tagged with a circular field of scrolling text, with a red star in it. ( http://www.lispforum.com/styles/prosilver/imageset/topic_read_hot_mine.gif ) I've deduced that the star means &quo...

Still, apply on arbitrary lists seems like bad style to me. Agree. Especially since on some Lisps it's much lower. Lispworks for Linux Professional v5.2: 2047. Big enough for any hand-written function call you care to write (probably -- how masochistic are you? :) ), but too small to not worry abou...

ahh, i expiremented a little .... and got it ... defparameter establish dynamic variable so "a" in (defun test (a) ...) is dynamic not lexical (that's is what confused me, i thought "a" is lexical inside the function) As far as I know, there is no way to un-special (ie. turn dyn...