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If you read the instructions Edi has given, it says "assume that *HTTP-STREAM* is the stream your web application is supposed to write to" I believe that this implies that it should have previously been defined, if you just want to test the output to standard output try this: (with-html-ou...

The short answer is that common lisp does not define defmacro in terms of defun, it is acutally just the opposite, defun is a macro that can be implemented using defmacro. In common lisp defmacro is also a macro, that utilizes the ability of common lisp to treat code as data and vice versa, but with...

Thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for and I think that going with a vps is a much better option now that I've looked into it. I agree reverse proxy is the way to go.

Hello, I am new at web development so I apologize ahead of time if I sound like a complete idiot. I am wondering if it is possible to configure a lisp on a hosted web site to run via cgi or preferably fastcgi. I have seen some documentation on the available options for fastcgi with clisp looking to ...

I was actually trying to figure out how I could do uniform operations on all slots (printing being a simple example). I didn't know about describe though, and that is very helpful independent of what I was trying to get at before.

Thanks!

I have been greatly interested in object persistence databases like allegrocache and elephant. I work in data warehousing so my mind is greatly ingrained in the relational/dimensional model, but I was curious if others had experience with using these types of data stores in production applications. ...

Okay, if anybody is interested I have solved this for my purposes. The solution is certainly in the MOP, thanks Ramarran for pointing me in that direction. I'll explain briefly what I found, but please note I've only studied the MOP documentation noted above for an hour or so, so my terminology is s...

Yeah, I wouldn't do that, it was just an example of something you could do. I'm not actually trying to figure out how to print all slots from a hierarchy of classes. I was just hoping the example of something that could be done if you could iterate all the slots would help illuminate my thinking on ...

Could you expound a little further on option 1 (generic functions and protocols). I certainly understand both the options with mop and a defclass like macro, but (and I apologize in advance if I'm over simplifying things) aren't I trying to do this with generic functions? How, given what you said wo...

I've found that it comes up a lot in my own classes that there is something I want to be able to do for every slot in a hierarchy of classes. For example if I wanted to print all the slots and their values for any class in a hierarchy (defclass foo-super () ((slot1) (slot2))) (defclass foo-sub (foo-...