Table of Contents
Allegro CL Certification Program
About Franz Inc.
Format of the Course
Getting Allegro Common Lisp
Getting Documentation
Documentation in the Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Allegro CL Certification Program
History of Lisp
History of Lisp, cont�d
Lists
Starting Allegro CL with the IDE
Count-digits-of-factorial
factorial
compute-list-of-occurrences
print-data
Results
Results 2
Adding code to a lisp session
Loading a file into a lisp session
Loading a function into a lisp session
Compiling a lisp file
Compiling and loading a lisp file
Compiling and loading a lisp file cont�d
Compiling and loading a lisp file
Dynamic Programming Language
Myths About Lisp
More Lisp Myths
Lisp Syntax
Examples of Lisp Syntax
Lists are used to define and call functions
Lisp includes a large and extensible number of types of objects
Lisp Data types
Program Data is Freed Automatically
Evaluation
Evaluation cont�d
Self-Evaluating Objects
Evaluation of a list
Evaluation of a list cont�d
Evaluation of a function call
Try Out the Evaluator
A Symbol is a Lisp Object
print representation of a symbol
ANSI Lisp is Case-Insensitive
Evaluating a Symbol
t and nil
Quote
Using Symbols
symbol and variable creation
Two Kinds of Variables
local variable creation Local variable creation
let
Binding
Local variables have lexical scope
special variable creation
special variable creation 2
special variable creation 3
Why Use a Special Variable?
Special variables have dynamic extent
Example of let binding a special
macros and special operators
setting the value of a variable
Variable Assignment Using setq and setf
Program Data is Typed, Variables are NOT typed
ANSI Lisp is Case-Insensitive cont�d
Function Definitions
Function definition
Function definition optional arguments
Function definition keyword arguments
Function definition rest arguments
Specifying &optional and &key arguments
3 element list specification of &optional or &key argument
Function definition lambda-list keywords
Data Equality
arithmetic functions take all appropriate numeric arguments
Creating Lists
printed output
printed output cont�d
printed output cont�d 2
Input
Output
Summary
Allegro CL Certification Program
Delivering Applications
Downloading Patches
What's On My Bookshelf
More On My Bookshelf
More Books
Class Information
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