Overlooked Featues in Common Lisp

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Pixel_Outlaw
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Overlooked Featues in Common Lisp

Post by Pixel_Outlaw » Thu May 15, 2014 10:14 pm

Common Lisp is a fairly big language.
I'm trying to get an idea of features I might have missed while reading books.
Does anyone have features of the language that they feel are often overlooked but really neat to know?
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marcoxa
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Re: Overlooked Featues in Common Lisp

Post by marcoxa » Fri May 16, 2014 1:34 am

One of my favorites is DEFSTRUCT constructors. I blogged about it some time ago (gosh! quite some time ago) http://within-parens.blogspot.it/2011/0 ... ricks.html. It turns out that you can do even trickier tricks with DEFSTRUCT constructors, as Pascal Costanza just pointed out at ELS 2014.

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Re: Overlooked Featues in Common Lisp

Post by Goheeca » Fri May 16, 2014 2:33 am

The capabilities of an output formatting and the loop macro, which are good to explore thoroughly. Since they are own complex DSLs in the standard CL.
cl-2dsyntax is my attempt to create a Python-like reader. My mirror of CLHS (and the dark themed version). Temporary mirrors of aferomentioned: CLHS and a dark version.
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Re: Overlooked Featues in Common Lisp

Post by marcoxa » Fri May 16, 2014 8:25 am

Yep. The PRETTY-PRINTER is quite a piece of software/api. Of course I blogged about it too :D http://within-parens.blogspot.it/2011/0 ... -xhtm.html
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Re: Overlooked Featues in Common Lisp

Post by Pixel_Outlaw » Sat May 17, 2014 8:54 am

Some very good suggestions. I have the feeling there is far more complexity to the CLOS than there appreas too.
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