On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Didier Verna wrote:
>
> It is well known that a functional approach to programming helps
> thinking in a top-down fashion. Idioms made available by first-class
> functions (e.g. mapping and folding) help you write down the general
> ideas first, and worry about the
My favorite way is:
1. Put the cursor before the s-expression
2. Invoke C-M-k (kill-sexp)
3. Immediately C-y (yank) to put the s-expression back in its place,
OR If I'm copying from an "untouched" source buffer, I'll use C-x u
(undo) instead, to keep the buffer in its "untouched" state.
4. Past
Didier Verna writes:
> So I was wondering, how's your code organized? How's your thought
> process organized? Top-down? Bottom-up? Both?
This is a topic that has already been discussed (almost to death but not
completely, only 93 posts) on cll:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/bro
It is well known that a functional approach to programming helps
thinking in a top-down fashion. Idioms made available by first-class
functions (e.g. mapping and folding) help you write down the general
ideas first, and worry about the details later. Paul Graham has nice
examples of that in On Lis
Alexandre Rademaker writes:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry if this list is not the best place to ask this question... Maybe
> we should create a newbie lisp list!
I don't think this is a good place for the question; there's a list for
slime questions, and lots of places to ask emacs questions.
> What is th
Hello,
Sorry if this list is not the best place to ask this question... Maybe
we should create a newbie lisp list!
What is the easy way to copy/paste a form from a source code buffer to
slime prompt? Is there any keyboard shortcut emacs/slime-mode to copy
the whole body of a form from anywhere wi
