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Date: Sun 14-Nov-1989 10:43:53 From: Unknown Subject: LISP Can anyone tell me where to get a LISP manual for the implementation on my NeXT. Appearently, digital librairian is a little brain dead or something. More specifically, is functionp working correctly? Winston and Horn say it returns true for an executable, but NeXT is returning true for just about everything. Since functionp is not in digital librarian, I am unable to confirm/deny that this is a feature, not a bug. Michael Rutman SoftMed >From: rfellman@ucsd.edu (ROnald D. Fellman)
Date: Sun 15-Nov-1989 00:59:43 From: Unknown Subject: Re: LISP the first book you want is "Common Lisp the Language". according to it, "functionp returns true for any object that is a symbol, a list whose car is lambda, returned by the function special form, or returned by compile with a nil first argument. Note that functionp returns true when its argument is a symbol even if that symbol does not have a function binding (either lexical or dynamic)." as far as i can tell it does just that. when you say it returns true for "just about everything", did you just mean all symbols? .mike. >From: gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel)
Date: Sun 15-Nov-1989 16:25:19 From: Unknown Subject: Re: LISP In article <246300066@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >Can anyone tell me where to get a LISP manual for the implementation on my >NeXT. Appearently, digital librairian is a little brain dead or something. > >Michael Rutman >SoftMed The definative resource on Allegro CL from Franz is Common Lisp: The Reference, by Franz, inc. It is available from Addison Wesley, and you can probably get a local bookstore to orger it for you (which is what I did). In theory, this should answer all questions about Lisp that aren't in digital librarian, and anything this book tells you isn't supposed to be repeated in librarian, although defferences should be noted. Dan
Date: Sun 15-Nov-1989 00:59:43 From: Unknown Subject: Re: LISP the first book you want is "Common Lisp the Language". according to it, "functionp returns true for any object that is a symbol, a list whose car is lambda, returned by the function special form, or returned by compile with a nil first argument. Note that functionp returns true when its argument is a symbol even if that symbol does not have a function binding (either lexical or dynamic)." as far as i can tell it does just that. when you say it returns true for "just about everything", did you just mean all symbols? .mike. >From: gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel)
Date: Sun 15-Nov-1989 16:25:19 From: Unknown Subject: Re: LISP In article <246300066@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >Can anyone tell me where to get a LISP manual for the implementation on my >NeXT. Appearently, digital librairian is a little brain dead or something. > >Michael Rutman >SoftMed The definative resource on Allegro CL from Franz is Common Lisp: The Reference, by Franz, inc. It is available from Addison Wesley, and you can probably get a local bookstore to orger it for you (which is what I did). In theory, this should answer all questions about Lisp that aren't in digital librarian, and anything this book tells you isn't supposed to be repeated in librarian, although defferences should be noted. Dan
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