The Syntax Extension Myth
Here’s a little Monday Troll. To my greatest disappointment, I discovered today that it is not possible to replace Lisp parenthesis by, say, curly braces. What a shame. Hell, it’s …
Clon 1.0b21 is out
One year between b19 and b20. 4 days between b20 and b21… This new version of Clon , the Common Lisp / Command-Line Options Nuker, introduces support for a new compiler, Allegro …
Clon 1.0b20 is out
I’m happy to announce a new release of Clon , the Common Lisp / Command-Line Options Nuker. In addition to a lot of uninteresting code and infrastructure changes, this new release …
CL-RCFiles 2.0 is out
Just a quick note to mention the release of CL-RCFiles 2.0. This version adds pre-loading initialization files. This very small Common Lisp library provides a way to add …
One More Indentation Hack
Here’s yet another indentation hack that I came up with recently. All the work done by Nikodemus on the Slime indentation contrib is pretty cool, especially the notion of …
Declt 1.0b12 is out
I’ve just released the next version of Declt , my reference manual generator for Common Lisp Libraries. This release includes some fixes for the Info format target but most …
Read-Time String Concatenation
Sometimes, I miss the string concatenation capability of C. I mean, the way that you can split a long string into smaller ones and have them automatically concatenated together. …
Declt 1.0b11 is out
I’ve just released a new version of Declt , my Texinfo reference manual generator for Common Lisp Libraries. This release contains only one bugfix: when trying to create links to …
Common Lisp indentation in Emacs
Update: since the original publication of this article, Nikodemus Siivola and I have done some more work on various other aspects of Common Lisp indentation, and I must say that …
File-Local Variables
Update: this document is finalized. It can now be officially referred to as “CDR 9”. In my ELS 2011 lightning talk, I announced the development of a new Common Lisp library called …