DEFUN = DEFine FUNction mapcan is probably an amalgamation of MAPCAR and APPEND.
On 1/31/06, Florian Ebeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I quickly scanned the hyperspec symbol index. There aren't > as many as I thought. princ1, princ and mapcan are worth > inclusion. And, yes perhaps also defun. I mean, it defines a > funtion. Ok. But when defmacro defines a macro, what is > define un... ? Perhaps it's not worth the attention, but I made > me wonder quite a bit already. Did they think one letter f is > more than enough? > > On 30/01/06, Peter Seibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- > Florian Ebeling > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > -- Bill Atkins _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
