These notes document CLISP version 2.49.93+
Copyright © 1992-2010 Bruno Haible
Copyright © 1998-2010 Sam Steingold
Abstract
This document describes the GNU CLISP - an implementation of the [ANSI CL standard].
See the section called “Bugs” for instructions on how to report bugs (both in the software and the documentaion).
See Q: A.1.1.5 for information on CLISP support.
Table of Contents
- Overview
- Conventions
- I. Chapters or the Common Lisp HyperSpec
- 1. Introduction chap-1
- 2. Syntax chap-2
- 3. Evaluation and Compilation chap-3
- 4. Types and Classes chap-4
- 5. Data and Control Flow chap-5
- 6. Iteration chap-6
- 7. Objects chap-7
- 8. Structures chap-8
- 9. Conditions chap-9
- 10. Symbols chap-10
- 11. Packages chap-11
- 12. Numbers chap-12
- 13. Characters chap-13
- 13.1. Introduction to Characters sec_13-1
- 13.2. Character sets
- 13.3. Character Scripts sec_13-1-2-1
- 13.4. Character Attributes sec_13-1-3
- 13.5. Graphic Characters sec_13-1-4-1
- 13.6. Alphabetic Characters sec_13-1-4-2
- 13.7. Characters With Case sec_13-1-4-3
- 13.8. Numeric Characters sec_13-1-4-4
- 13.9. Ordering of Characters sec_13-1-6
- 13.10. Character Names sec_13-1-7
- 13.11. Treatment of Newline during Input and Output sec_13-1-8
- 13.12. Character Encodings sec_13-1-9
- 13.13. Documentation of Implementation-Defined Scripts sec_13-1-10
- 13.14. Platform-Dependent Characters
- 13.15. Obsolete Constants
- 14. Conses chap-14
- 15. Arrays chap-15
- 16. Strings chap-16
- 17. Sequences chap-17
- 18. Hash Tables chap-18
- 19. Filenames chap-19
- 20. Files chap-20
- 21. Streams chap-21
- 21.1. Interactive Streams sec_21-1-1-1-3
- 21.2. Terminal interaction
- 21.3. Binary Input and Output
- 21.4. Bulk Input and Output
- 21.5. Non-Blocking Input and Output
- 21.6. Newline Convention
- 21.7. Function
STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT - 21.8. Function
STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE - 21.9. Function
EXT:MAKE-STREAM - 21.10. Function
FILE-POSITION - 21.11. Function
EXT:ELASTIC-NEWLINE - 21.12. Function
OPEN - 21.13. Function
CLEAR-INPUT - 21.14. Function
CLOSE - 21.15. Function
OPEN-STREAM-P - 21.16. Class
BROADCAST-STREAM - 21.17. Functions
EXT:MAKE-BUFFERED-INPUT-STREAMandEXT:MAKE-BUFFERED-OUTPUT-STREAM - 21.18. Function
EXT:STREAM-HANDLES
- 22. Printer chap-22
- 22.1. Multiple Possible Textual Representations sec_22-1-1-1
- 22.2. Printing Floats sec_22-1-3-1-3
- 22.3. Printing Characters sec_22-1-3-2
- 22.4. Package Prefixes for Symbols sec_22-1-3-3-1
- 22.5. Printing Other Vectors sec_22-1-3-7
- 22.6. Printing Other Arrays sec_22-1-3-8
- 22.7. The Lisp Pretty Printer sec_22-2
- 22.8. Formatted Output sec_22-3
- 22.9. Functions
WRITE&WRITE-TO-STRING - 22.10. Macro
PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT - 22.11. Miscellaneous Issues
- 23. Reader chap-23
- 24. System Construction chap-24
- 25. Environment chap-25
- 26. Glossary chap-26
- 27. Appendix chap-a
- 28. X3J13 Issue Index [CLHS-ic]
- II. Common Portable Extensions
- III. Extensions Specific to CLISP
- 31. Platform Independent Extensions
- 31.1. Customizing CLISP Process Initialization and Termination
- 31.2. Saving an Image
- 31.3. Quitting CLISP
- 31.4. Internationalization of CLISP
- 31.5. Encodings
- 31.6. Generic streams
- 31.7. Weak Objects
- 31.8. Finalization
- 31.9. The Prompt
- 31.10. Maximum ANSI CL compliance
- 31.11. Additional Fancy Macros and Functions
- 31.12. Customizing CLISP behavior
- 31.13. Code Walker
- 32. Platform Specific Extensions
- 33. Extensions Implemented as Modules
- 33.1. A System Definition Facility
- 33.2. System Calls
- 33.3. Internationalization of User Programs
- 33.4. POSIX Regular Expressions
- 33.5. Advanced Readline and History Functionality
- 33.6. GDBM - The GNU database manager
- 33.7. Berkeley DB access
- 33.8. Directory Access
- 33.9. PostgreSQL Database Access
- 33.10. Oracle Interface
- 33.11. LibSVM Interface
- 33.12. Computer Algebra System PARI
- 33.13. Matlab Interface
- 33.14. Netica Interface
- 33.15. Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
- 33.16. Interface to zlib
- 33.17. Raw Socket Access
- 33.18. The FastCGI Interface
- 33.19. Interface to D-Bus
- 33.20. GTK Interface
- IV. Internals of the CLISP Implementation
- V. Appendices
- Index
- References
List of Figures
- 29.1. Inheritance structure of metaobject classes
- 29.2. Inheritance structure of class metaobject classes
- 29.3. Inheritance structure of slot definition metaobject classes
- 29.4. Inheritance structure of generic function metaobject classes
- 29.5. Inheritance structure of method metaobject classes
- 29.6. Inheritance structure of specializer metaobject classes
- 29.7. Inheritance structure of method combination metaobject classes
List of Tables
- 1. Mark-up conventions
- 3.1. Function call limits
- 12.1. Boolean operations
- 12.2. Fixnum limits
- 13.1. Number of characters
- 13.2. Standard characters
- 13.3. Semi-standard characters
- 13.4. Additional Named Characters
- 13.5. Additional syntax for characters with code from #x00 to #x1F:
- 13.6. Additional characters (Win32 platform only.)
- 13.7. Additional characters (UNIX platform only.)
- 13.8. Character bit constants (obsolete)
- 15.1. Array limits
- 19.1. The minimum filename syntax that may be used portably
- 25.1. Commands common to the main loop, the debugger and the stepper
- 25.2. Commands common to the debugger and the stepper
- 25.3. Commands common to the debugger and the stepper
- 25.4. Commands specific to
EVAL/APPLY - 25.5. Commands specific to the debugger
- 25.6. Commands specific to the stepper
- 25.7. Time granularity
- 29.1. Direct Superclass Relationships Among The Specified Metaobject Classes
- 29.2. Initialization arguments and accessors for class metaobjects
- 29.3. Initialization arguments and accessors for slot definition metaobjects
- 29.4. Initialization arguments and accessors for generic function metaobjects
- 29.5. Initialization arguments and accessors for method metaobjects
- 29.6. The correspondence between slot access function and underlying slot access generic function
- 35.1. Memory models with
TYPECODES - 35.2. Memory models with
HEAPCODES
List of Examples
- 21.1. Dialog with user using completion
- 25.1. Identifying Individual Calls in
TRACE - 30.1. Example of
EXT:FILL-STREAMusage - 32.1. Create a module set with GNU libc bindings
- 32.2. Simple declarations and access
- 32.3. External C variable and some accesses
- 32.4. Calling an external function
- 32.5. Another example for calling an external function
- 32.6. Accessing cpp macros
- 32.7. Calling Lisp from C
- 32.8. Calling Lisp from C dynamically
- 32.9. Variable size arguments: calling
gethostnamefrom CLISP - 32.10. Accessing variables in shared libraries
- 32.11. Controlling validity of resources
- 32.12. Floating point arrays
- 32.13. Lisp read-eval-print loop server
- 32.14. Lisp HTTP client
- 33.1.
REGEXP:MATCH - 33.2.
REGEXP:REGEXP-QUOTE - 33.3. Count unix shell users
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