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15 Common Lisp the Language 2nd

In this greatly expanded edition of the de facto standard, you’ll learn about the nearly 200 changes already made since original publication — and find out about gray areas likely to be revised later. Written by the Vice-Chairman of X3J13 (the ANSI committee responsible for the standardization of Common Lisp) and co-developer of the language itself, the new edition contains the entire text of the first edition plus six completely new chapters. They cover:

• CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System, with new features to support function overloading and object-oriented programming, plus complete technical specifications
• Loops, a powerful control structure for multiple variables
• Conditions, a generalization of the error signaling mechanism
• Series and generators
• Plus other subjects not part of the ANSI standards but of interest to professional programmers.

• Preface
• Introduction
• Data Types
• Scope and Extent
• Type Specifiers
• Program Structure
• Predicates
• Control Structure
• Macros
• Declarations
• Symbols
• Packages
• Numbers
• Characters
• Sequences
• Lists
• Hash Tables
• Arrays
• Strings
• Structures
• Evaluator
• Streams
• Input-Output
• File System Interface
• Miscellaneous Features
• Loop
• Pretty Printing
• Common Lisp Object System
• Conditions
• Metaobject Protocol