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Thanks for the pointer to the Idiot's Guide! It was extremely helpful. I will relook at the problem with my new found perspective on packages.

Is there a commonly used set of package dependencies in the comon lisp community? Maybe *no package dependency* is the standard? Or is there no common approach used by most lisp developers? I ask because I am running into a compile-time package-locked-error. And this got me thinking about common or ...

Hmmm..... I can't get the tarball for parse-number to open (I am working on a Windows machine).
Maybe it will be easiest just to write the text handling part myself, then use the usual cl number handlers.
thanks!

Hi! I am starting to write a lisp function that will take a text input (this text is obtained by parsing tokens from a text chat app), and removes a specific set of non-numeric English characters and will return a number. For example: - given the input "2nd", the function will return 2 - g...

Your answer was exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you a great deal!

On the 5th line of code below, someone has used the keyword parameter named ":all" in the body of the function definition. I am not accustomed to seeing it this way. I have used the code and it works. I just don't know why the 5th line is a valid equality test. ?? (defun find-matching-chun...

Hello! I am working on a project where (among other things) we are writing a list of pairs of values to be embedded in an xml document. Sometimes both members of the pair are symbols; and sometimes they are a symbol and a string. The overall lisp program is quite large. The example shown below is si...