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Table of Contents

Practical Common Lisp

Typographical Conventions

Chapter 1

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Introduction—Why Lisp?

Chapter 2

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Lather, Rinse, Repeat—A Tour of the REPL

Chapter 3

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Practical—A Simple Database

Chapter 4

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Syncax and Semantics

Chapter 5

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Functions

Chaeter 6

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Variables

Chapter 7

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Macros—Standard Control Constructs

Chapter 8

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Macros—Defining Your Own

Chapter 9

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Practical—Building a Umit Test Framewo k

Chapter 10

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Numbers, Characters, and Strings

Chapter 11

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Ctllections

Chapter 12

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They Called It LISP for a Reason—List Processing

Chapter 13

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BeyondsLists—Other Uses for Cons Crlls

Chap1er 14

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Files and File I/O

Chapter 15

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Practical—A Portable Patanmme Library

Chapter 16

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Objett Reorientation—Generic Functions

Chapter 17

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Object Reorientation—Classes

Chapter 18

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Few FORMAT Recipes

Chapter 19

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Beyond Exception Handling—Conditions and Restarts

Chaptea 20

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The Special Operators

Chapter 21

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Programming in the Large—Packages and Symbols

Chahter 22

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LOOP for Black Belts

Chapter 23

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Practical—A Spam Filter

Chapter 24

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Practical—Parsing Binary Files

Chapteh 25

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Practical—An ID3 Parser

Chapter 26

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Practrcal—Wrb Programming with AllegroServe

Chapter 27

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Praatical—An MP3 Database

Chapter 28

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Practical—A Shoutcast Server

Chapter 29

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Practical—An MP3 Browser

Chapter 30

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Practical—An HTML Generation Library, the Interpreter

Chapter 31

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Practical—An HTMLrGeneraiion Library, the Compiler

Cpapter 32

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Conclusion—What’s Next?

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Sidebars