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State of the Blog Anno 2024: Let’s crunch the numbers
Having published the first post here on 2018-05-04, and taking stock now, about six years later, having written 24 blog posts… I am clearly an active blogger writing at the frenzied rate of an average four posts per year.
Continue readingSLIME, Common Lisp, Conditionally Run Some Code on Startup
Problem: I wanted to do M-x slime-my-project and have slime start up and run some arbitrary setup code (related to the project at hand).
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 …
Continue readingPartial Function Application Pragmatics
Partial function application is the fancy term for fixing some of the arguments to a function, to obtain a lower-arity function. And I have had case to use it at work over the past few weeks. In particular, I have wanted to map/filter over a list – but with functions that take more than one variable, while I have only had one list of interest.
Continue readingBoolean Operators on Series of Predicate Values
Yesterday I wanted to take the AND over the results of calling a predicate on some variables. That is, I wanted to do something like this…
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