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I've been working on Quicklisp , a project to make it really easy to install and use CL libraries. On Saturday, October 9th, I'm going to release what I have as a public beta for anyone to try. As of today, the discussion group is open for any kind of Quicklisp discussion. I'd like to find out more ...

I've always liked cl-ppcre as an example. It covers many different features of Common Lisp, it does an interesting job, it's well-commented and well-documented, it's challenging but not impossible to understand, and it's very fast.

Here are a few things that sprang to mind. (defun miningold.alphabet (&key (length 3) (alphabet "0123")) (let ((output (make-string length))) (dotimes (i length output) (setf (aref output i) (aref alphabet (random (length alphabet))))))) (defun miningold.numbers (&key (length 3) (l...

There isn't anything built-in.

For the former, you could do something like For the latter, one option is

The assertions inform the type inference, and you will usually get compile-time warnings for code that violates type declarations.

For Planet Lisp, I wrote a short Python program that loads feeds with the Universal Feed Parser and writes out files of sexps representing their contents. Then a Lisp program puts the HTML pages together.