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The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS: Part 2
In Part 1 of this accidental series, I provided a first draft of an implementation of ensure-class-using-metaclass… Unsurprisingly, the first version had some issues.
Continue readingDon’t LOOP when you can MAPCAR et al.
In Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case studies in Common Lisp (PAIP), Peter Norvig gives the following six maxims of good style: …
Continue readingThe Art of the Metaobject Protocol, and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS
… Well, time for an experiment. I’ve previously noted that I find the design of ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS odd…
Continue readingFORMAT in Common Lisp writes to a DESTINATION
Most uses of FORMAT either supply a stream or NIL as the destination argument. However, FORMAT can also take a string with a fill-pointer …
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