On Jan 30, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Florian Ebeling wrote: > Is anyone aware of a resources which elaborates on the meaning behind > the acronyms which form the lisp operators. I find it often a bit > annoying > not to have a human-language-like expansions for essentials like setf. > I can see how set came into being. And then came setq as shorthand > for "set quoted". But what is setf? There are many more examples for > unrecognizable operator names, and I would really enjoy to be able to > read them as words proper for myself while programming. > > Does anyone know of such a resource?
There are already several questions of this nature in the new CL FAQ that some of us are working on. (CAR, CDR, SETF, LET). If there are other operators whose names you'd like the etymology of, please drop me a note and I'll add it to the FAQ (once I get some spare time to work on it, that is.) -Peter P.S. SETF stands for SET Form. -- Peter Seibel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ Practical Common Lisp * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
