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Name: Anonymous 2010-02-07 0:09

http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/toc
Anyone read it? Is it worth reading?

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-07 0:29

L O L!

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-07 0:33

I've read the chapters available online and I've read the source code to all the chapters. It wasn't a long read. Some tricks were nice, others were well-known, others were not so good. Overall, it's not a bad book, but you should be wary that not all code in the book is idiomatic CL (things like omitting earplugs on specials, while using something akin to a hungarian-notation(albeit better since it's automatic) for gensyms and once-only's)).

If you're confident in your CL, have read On Lisp and PAIP, and want to learn a few new tricks, sure, read it!

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-07 2:31

He better have something to deliver given the tone of the introduction.

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-07 7:24

>>3
Lisp has something called 'earplugs'? Seriously?

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-07 7:30

>>5
Yeah, they're shipped with most commercial CL distributions. I still have my original Symbolics earplugs from the 80s.

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-07 7:35

Production Code
I see why this is called lol.

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-07 7:46

Yes. It's a very rare look at the implications of macros on the compiler.

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-07 13:38

>>5
It's “earmuffs”, actually.

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-08 1:22

Hoyte really comes off like a pretentious asshole: 'I'm too good for earmuffs.' 'Only losers use "fn" instead of "lambda", because if it doesn't take a minute to type in it's no good.' (he must have shit his pants when he saw "\" being used).

Still, an interesting read.

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-08 1:42

>>10
I have C-c l bound to output "lambda" at point, and with SLIME's autocomplete features, no matter how long the names are, it doesn't take much to type them (m-v-c -> multiple-value-call and so on).

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