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Hi Edgar,

thanks for your reply and help!

Best regards,
mcc

Hi, I am confused. But this seems to be the very first step before being enlightened by the TAO of Lisp... :) What I want to do is: As a parameter to the function I get a list of items, which will become the keys of a "master-hash". The values of each of the keys will become empty hashes, ...

Hi edgar-rft,

thanks again for your valuable help!
Best regards,
mcc

Hi, As far is I understand the "if" construct of common lisp (and that is not that far ;) you can only put ONE expression in each branch like this: (if (> x 1 ) (print "true") (print "false)) I searched google and hyperpsec but only found examples like that above. Is it poss...

Hi Edgar,

thanks again for your very helpful posting!

Best regards,
mcc

Hi, I am playing around with the format command. It seems to be the older brother of Cs "printf()"-function ;) I am searching for understandable and possibly complete list of the format control directives (and I hope I have googled this term correctly...what I mean is "everything whic...

Hi Edgar! OMG! :) THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR EFFORT TO HELP ME, EDGAR!!! And thank you for the "meta-help" (the format specification...for example!) Wile I am start learning LISP I want to "talk with an appropriate """spelling""" " from the beg...

Hi, from a list of Shortwave broadcasters (HFCC "Public Data" - a pure ASCII file) I got this header: ;----+----+----+------------------------------+---+----+-------+---+---+-------+------+------+-+-----+----------+---+---+---+-----+-+-----+-----+-----+------- ;FREQ STRT STOP CIRAF ZONES L...

Hi edgar, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THIS GOOD STUFF! :) :) :) The problem, what I have right in the beginning of learning and using Common Lisp is to know (or better: "not knowing") what I am looking for. I /thought/ (and I was wrong) that (in this case) it has something to do with Alias...

Hi, I want to use cl-ppcres and it seems, that I am doing something wrong -- may be because I am think more perl (or whatelse) than LISP. In my program I did a (require "cl-ppcre") Since there are call that I have to prepend with "cl-ppcre::" every time I use them, I looked for a...