Re: [pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

2011-01-21 Thread Tord Romstad
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Svante Carl v. Erichsen svante.v.erich...@web.de wrote: I should call it string-conc, conc-string, or conc-string. I actually agree. What I meant is that if you really want to use a mathematical operator for this, multiplication is the natural choice. Your

Re: [pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

2011-01-21 Thread Stas Boukarev
Svante Carl v. Erichsen svante.v.erich...@web.de writes: Hi! I should call it string-conc, conc-string, or conc-string. I should not expect from first sight that either, string+ or string*, would concatenate. From those names, it also would seem surprising that they can take any

Re: [pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

2011-01-21 Thread Zach Beane
Drew Csillag (sounds like cheese-log) dcsil...@google.com writes: Not to sound like I'm complaining (quicklisp is awesome btw), but if http:// www.quicklisp.org/beta/releases.html had descriptions of what the packages actually did (or links to their respective homepage, or docstrings, or

Re: [pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

2011-01-21 Thread Zach Beane
Nick Levine n...@ravenbrook.com writes: We're getting there. See http://www.quicklisp.org/ Especially, see http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/releases.html It doesn't say what any one of them do. There's no way (am I right?) to look up form what I want to do to what exists to do it. Very

Re: [pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

2011-01-21 Thread Steve Morin
I have been a beginner lisp developer for years largely because the is just a large problem with answering the question I want to make a website, but what a pain to figure out where to start, I want to X. I would be down to contribute. This lisp learning curve is large, and figuring out the