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• Table of Contents
• Back Cover
• Practical Common Lisp
• Typographical Conventions
• Chapter 1: Introduction - Why Lisp?
  • Why Lisp?
  • Where It Began
  • Who This Book Is For
• Chapter 2: Lather, Rinse, Repeat - A Tour of the REPL
  • Getting Up and Running with Lisp in a Box
  • Free Your Mind: Interactive Programming
  • Experimenting in the REPL
  • "Hello, World," Lisp Style
  • Saving Your Work
• Chapter 3: Practical - A Simple Database
  • CDs and Records
  • Filing CDs
  • Looking at the Database Contents
  • Improving the User Interaction
  • Saving and Loading the Database
  • Querying the Database
  • Updating Existing Records - Another Use for WHERE
  • Removing Duplication and Winning Big
  • Wrapping Up
• Chapter 4: Syntax and Semantics
  • Breaking Open the Black Box
  • S-expressions
  • S-expressions As Lisp Forms
  • Function Calls
  • Special Operators
  • Macros
  • Truth, Falsehood, and Equality
  • Formatting Lisp Code
• Chapter 5: Functions
  • Defining New Functions
  • Function Parameter Lists
  • Optional Parameters
  • Rest Parameters
  • Keyword Parameters
  • Mixing Different Parameter Types
  • Function Return Values
  • Functions As Data, a.k.a. Higher-Order Functions
  • Anonymous Functions
• Chapter 6: Variables
  • Lexical Variables and Closures
  • Dynamic, a.k.a. Special, Variables
  • Constants
  • Assignment
  • Generalized Assignment
  • Other Ways to Modify Places
• Chapter 7: Macros - Standard Control Constructs
  • WHEN and UNLESS
  • COND
  • AND, OR, and NOT
  • Looping
  • DOLIST and DOTIMES
  • DO
  • The Mighty LOOP
• Chapter 8: Macros - Defining Your Own
  • The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story
  • Macro Expansion Time vs. Runtime
  • DEFMACRO
  • Sample Macro: do-primes
  • Macro Parameters
  • Generating the Expansion
  • Plugging the Leaks
  • Macro-Writing Macros
  • Beyond Simple Macros
• Chapter 9: Practical - Building a Unit Test Framework
  • Two First Tries
  • Refactoring
  • Fixing the Return Value
  • Better Result Reporting
  • An Abstraction Emerges
  • Hierarchy of Tests
  • Wrapping Up
• Chapter 10: Numbers, Characters, and Strings
  • Numbers
  • Numeric Literals
  • Basic Math
  • Numeric Comparisons
  • Higher Math
  • Characters
  • Character Comparisons
  • Strings
  • String Comparisons
• Chapter 11: Collections
  • Vectors
  • Subtypes of Vector
  • Vectors As Sequences
  • Sequence Iterating Functions
  • Higher-Order Function Variants
  • Whole Sequence Manipulations
  • Sorting and Merging
  • Subsequence Manipulations
  • Sequence Predicates
  • Sequence Mapping Functions
  • Hash Tables
  • Hash Table Iteration
• Chapter 12: They Called It LISP for a Reason - List Processing