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Regarding check-type I was actually alluding to situations where optimisations have been applied/declared, like safety 0, or speed 3. Ah, yes, I forgot that check-type presents a restart to fix the value, that's neat. The regexp idea would be cool, but then I'd have to learn how to write and read re...

I just looked into my array utilities, which I skipped over earlier when I wrote the other replies. One thing that has annoyed me in the past, is the 0 based indices for arrays, etc., so I wrote my own aref and elt versions: (defun 1ref (array &rest indices) "Cool 1-based array indexing.&qu...

Ahh, the #'ap example looks a lot better if you have print-hash-table defined. That's one more I have accumulated from somewhere/someone :

I use ap less nowadays, but I've found that it's most useful when you've picked up the basics of a package, but can't remember the function name exactly, or which functions have XYZ in their name. So, it's kind of a help to jog my memory, when I don't want to deal with the CL HyperSpec or other docu...

Hey, I use, among a couple of other less interesting utilities, these (apologies if I can't recall the originator): (defmacro let^ (bindings &body body) (if (evenp (length bindings)) `(let ,(loop :for (var val) :on bindings :by (function cddr) :collect (list var val)) ,@body) (cerror "Odd n...

I had a look at the data using OpenOffice Calc, and a log-log scatter-plot (I had to discard the points that had a one in either column). At first I tried fitting an exponential, but it didn't work well for the first few data points. Based on a linear fit to the log-log plot data, I reckon that you ...

Hey freezy39, first thing, please put your code and results into a [code]your lisp code here [/code] format so that it's easier to read. You'll probably want to use the format control ~C , which lets you change your (format t "a") into: (format t "~C" (funcall function x y)) But ...

Thanks heaps for clarifying that . I thought it wasn't such a big issue , but breaking the ability to compile does seem wrong .

Thanks for your responses... Ramarren - I agree that it doesn't have the power to match the flexibility of Lisp. Do you have an example of an evaluation time problem that you help me out with? WeYu - Thanks for the pointer. I'll give it a look. Warning! Rant follows... It's slightly OT, but this ide...

Has anyone seen something like this in Lisp? I was thinking of something like this for small projects, or projects I only want to play with. (defvar *included* nil "Temporarily holds all included file paths. That is, holds all paths to files loaded with the include form.") (defun include (...