Common LISP: The Language

✍ Scribed by Guy L. Steele Jr.

• Publisher: Digital Press
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1096
• Edition: Second Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The defacto standard - a must-have for all LISP programmers.

In this greatly expanded edition of the defacto standard, you'll learn about the nearly 200 changes already made since original publication - and find out about gray areas likely to be revised later. Written by the Vice- Chairman of X3J13 (the ANSI committee responsible for the standardization of Common Lisp) and co-developer of the language itself, the new edition contains the entire text of the first edition plus six completely new chapters. They cover: - CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System, with new features to support function overloading and object-oriented programming, plus complete technical specifications
• Loops, a powerful control structure for multiple variables
• Conditions, a generalization of the error signaling mechanism
• Series and generators
• Plus other subjects not part of the ANSI standards but of interest to professional programmers. Throughout, you'll find fresh examples, additional clarifications, warnings, and tips - all presented with the author's customary vigor and wit.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1. Introduction
2. Data Types
3. Scope and Extent
4. Type Specifiers
5. Program Structure
6. Predicates
7. Control Structure
8. Macros
9. Declerations
10. Symbols
11. Packages
12. Numbers
13. Characters
14. Sequences
15. Lists
16. Hash Tables
17. Arrays
18. Strings
19. Structures
20. The Evaluator
21. Streams
22. Input/Output
23. File System Interface
24. Errors
25. Miscellaneous Features
26. Loop
27. Pretty Printing
28. Common Lisp Object System
29. Conditions
Appendix A. Series
Appendix B. Generators and Gatherers
Appendix C. Backquote
References
Index of X3J13 Votes
Other Indexes

✦ Subjects

lisp, common lisp, programming languages