Topics

• Getting started with common-lisp
• ASDF - Another System Definition Facility
• CLOS - the Common Lisp Object System
• macros
• Functions as first class values
• Quote
• LOOP, a Common Lisp macro for iteration
• sequence - how to split a sequence
• Basic loops
• Functions
• Unit testing
• Cons cells and lists
• ANSI Common Lisp, the language standard and its documentation
• CLOS Meta-Object Protocol
• Streams
• Recursion
• Control Structures
• Booleans and Generalized Booleans
• Lexical vs special variables
• Getting started with lisp
• Grouping Forms
• Customization
• Mapping functions over lists

Examples

• Creating a basic CLOS class without parents
• MACROEXPAND
• Backquote - writing code templates for macros
• Unique symbols to prevent name clashes in macros
• Defining anonymous functions
• Referring to Existing Functions
• ' is an alias for the special operator QUOTE
• If quoted objects are destructively modified, the consequences are undefined!
• Simple LOOP form
• dotimes
• Rest Parameter
• Auxiliary Variables
• RETURN-FROM, exit from a block or a function
• SPLIT-SEQUENCE in LIspWorks
• Using FiveAM
• Lists as a convention
• Common Lisp HyperSpec
• EBNF syntax declarations in documentation
• Obtain the slot names of a Class
• Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition, by Guy L. Steele Jr.
• CLiki - Proposed ANSI Revisions and Clarifications
• Common Lisp Quick Reference
• Reading file
• Conditional Constructs
• True and False
• Generalized Booleans
• Quote and self-evaluating objects
• Global special variables are special everywhere
• Installation or Setup
• Dialects of Lisp and their implementations
• The ANSI Common Lisp standard in Texinfo format (especially useful for GNU Emacs)
• Block
• More features for the Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) in a terminal
• Initialization Files
• Optimization settings
• Examples of MAPCAN and MAPCON