Questions tagged [common-lisp]
Common Lisp, or ANSI Common Lisp, is a standardized version of the Lisp programming language intended for production-strength power and libraries.
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Tweaking the common-lisp reader
I am trying to parse a s-exp based langage and I am trying to prototype it using Common-Lisp, however, the reader has quite a few reader macros already defined that are getting in my way.
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Destructive quick and merge sort
I've implemented a destructive merge and quick sort in common lisp, but the code feels verbose and highly imperative. I was wondering if anyone could offer guidance on idioms that could make the code ...
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Split a list into two parts
I wanted to split a list into 2 parts, as per the chosen size, first the size and then the list. Example:
(split 3'(1 3 5 7 9))
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Prime number generator in lisp
My implementation is based on the incremental prime sieve described on Wikipedia. I'm relatively new to lisp so I would appreciate any comments on my coding style or on the algorithm.
The below code ...
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How can I make this check balanced parenthesis implementation more concise and efficient?
I'm new to common lisp. I basically translated a procedural implementation of balanced parenthesis using a stack to common lisp. How can I make my implementation more lispy?
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Break down a list SEQUENCE into consecutive lists of constant TASTE
I am looking for ways to improve this little utility function:
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Constructing Functions Patterned After Common Lisp Built-in Functions
This is an experiment to see what's involved in adding new functional
capability to the Common Lisp baseline. In this case, it's adding a
sequence function to select elements from a sequence ...
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S-expression comments in Common Lisp
I have written a Common Lisp implementation of Scheme's s-expression comments (SRFI 62):
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Detecting Dependencies in Common Lisp Project Files (Part 2)
This is a rewrite of the Dependencies program submitted previously at https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/255635/detecting-dependencies-in-common-lisp-project-files/256336?noredirect=1#...
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Detecting Dependencies in Common Lisp Project Files
The following short program is a collection of routines for detecting the dependencies among a project’s component files. Dependencies serve as a rough measure of the complexity of a program. ...
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Count complete trips to the basement and back to ground floor
An elevator starts on the ground floor 0 and moves up or down by one floor at a time as described by an input string travel. ...
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count pairs of matching integers in a collection in Common Lisp
This defines count-pairs which
takes a collection of integers
returns the number of pairs of integers that are equal to each other.
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Deque class in Common Lisp
I created a library with two CLOS class to implement a deque structure similar to the one available in C++, plus a few Lisp-ian twists. The two classes are node, ...
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Lispy code? Palindrome of product
My answer to Project Euler problem 4 (largest palindrome of product of two 3-digit numbers) is below.
Please suggest improvements, style changes, indentation, commenting, naming, ...
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Lispy code? Prime factors of a number
My answer to Project Euler problem 3 (largest prime factor of 600851475143) is below.
Please suggest improvements, style changes, indentation, commenting, naming of "objects", ...
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Lispy code? Sum multiples of 3 or 5 up to 1000
I've started learning Lisp one more time (I seem to do this every couple years); my experience is with C, basically. I attempted to solve the Project Euler problem 1:
If we list all the natural ...
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My solution to the 100 prisoners challenge
I stumbled across the 100 prisoners problem on Rosetta Code. I thought it would be fun to add a Common Lisp solution, see below.
Before I publish my solution I would like to have some feedback on my ...
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Hunchentoot first steps - good ways of pulling out parenscript from an easy-handler
In the following hunchentoot easy-handler definition:
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Thoughts about a json2clos decoding using cl-json
Coming from this question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58131614/how-to-convert-json-string-into-complex-clos-object-using-cl-json-library I've finally come up with the following solution.
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BST range search
I'd like some input on my implementation of bst-range, which follows below.
Before we can get to bst-range, we first need some setup code to build the BST.
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BST with node count
I took a simple BST implementation which is only really a set (i.e. just element, not key value), and decided to add a node count. I was translating this, which is explained here.
In particular the ...
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Generating HTML for prerolled d20 RPG initiative tables
A fairly simple program that I tried to write in Common Lisp in order to practice/learn. I'm sure this can be done more elegantly but Lisp's string handling seems to be very werd.
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BST traverse as higher order function [closed]
Consider the following function to traverse a BST
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Abstracting on Common Lisp Function Keyword Parameters
This is an experiment on extending a basic built-in Common Lisp sequence function (namely remove), in order to provide more functionality with little or no impact ...
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Find minimum value in a BST: using boolean operators, and using conditionals
I've been studying the BST code in Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp.
He provides (my comments):
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Count frequencies of symbols in a list
I'd like to find a more elegant solution to the following.
Below appears correct, but it's hard to read.
Is my first use of the map function below poor in stylistic terms?
It feels that way, and ...
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Sum ints on stdin
I have been meaning to learn LISP and for a small task I wanted to find out the sum of all integers on STDIN. So for
> clisp a.lisp
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My code is as ...
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Evaluator for adding and subtracting algebraic expressions
I wrote a little program that adds and subtracts some algebraic expressions.
In my code (2 x 3) represents \$2x^3\$.
The purpose of this post is to get some ...
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Generating a list (or a string) with random elements
During implementation and testing of different small hobby projects I often reach the point where I need (at least I like it more) some random data beyond the usual foo-bar strings or lists. Random ...
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Calculating the cube root
Inspired by a question on SO I was checking how to calculate the cube root of an integer and found a C-ish solution on Hacker's Delight:
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merge function for mergesort - recursion vs. iteration
I decided to do an algorithms course (Roughgarden's on Coursera), and am setting out to implement each algorithm as it's introduced, in Lisp. We start with mergesort which is introduced as the ...
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Binary Heap implementation in Common Lisp and tests
I implemented a basic binary heap in Common Lisp to learn programming using the CLOS. It is quite neat and self-contained, the core of the program is about 100 SLOC. The whole repository can be found ...
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Utmost function that takes a comparator function
I'm working through Paul Graham's "ANSI Common Lisp". In Chapter 6 (p105), he introduces the idea of utility functions. He points out these are core to bottom-up programming and reusability. He ...
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Nested loop in lisp to process a 2d array - what's good style (with and/or without loop macro)? [closed]
Code below is answer to an exercise in Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp (ex. 4.1). The challenge is to rotate an array by 90 degrees. I found an example solution which I've commented below.
It seems ok'...
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Puzzling SBCL Compiler Note
I’m having trouble understanding an SBCL compiler note about unreachable code in the following function. The referenced code is attempting to push a value into an Lparallel queue: ...
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A Parallel Processing Template for Divide & Conquer Problems
I’ve written a program for solving a problem using standard single-threaded code. However, it looks like it could be recast as a multi-threaded problem using divide & conquer. Since this is a ...
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Enigma questions from "ANSI Common Lisp" [closed]
I'm working through Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp and in Exercise 2.5, I'm stumped. My specific question (I wasn't sure whether this type of question is suitable for stack overflow, code review, or ...
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pos+ (value added to position) - ex 3.5 in “ANSI Common Lisp” (p57)
The problem is to take a list of integers and map them to another list containing those integers added to their respective position in the list.
Example runs with required outputs:
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Occurrences (frequency count) - exercise 3 ch. 3 in "ansi common lisp"
Looking for hints on style and clarity re. below. While I'm not saying speed is irrelevant, it's less of a priority than style & avoiding bad habits at this point. Focus is on clean use of ...
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Verify that each named sequence is strictly increasing
The master launch sequence consists of several independent sequences for different systems. Your goal is to verify that all the individual system sequences are in strictly increasing order. In other ...
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Implementing a tree parsing function
I've solved an assignment a week ago, which is my first assignment using Lisp.
Tasks:
Task 1:
a. Given a tree as recursive lists, print the tree in breadth first order.
b. Given a tree like ...
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A simple Tic Tac Toe game
I am trying to learn some Common Lisp, except basically all of my computing background is the C family of languages. So, I'm starting small. I have made a Tic-Tac-Toe game, and I am looking for some ...
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FizzBuzz in Common Lisp
Where I stand on Lisp
So, Lisp. It's been on my radar for years and I'm finally getting around to learning it. The syntax is foreign but I find I'm having the most difficulty in the areas of ...
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Extracting XML data from a node in Common Lisp (Closure XML DOM)
This is a function intended to take an XML element (in closure XML format) and a name and find a piece of simple data by that name (either in a tag or attribute) within that XML element. It works, but ...
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Returning the prime factors of a number
I am trying to create a function prime-factors that returns the prime factors of a number. To do so, I created is-prime function,...
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Pure functional code for the sublists of a list
The code below gives me the list of sublists of a list. Code can still be improved to avoid the use of append, right?
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lisp-koans Greed implementation
I have implemented Greed as part of the lisp-koans extra-credit challenge.
I am seeking some general feedback with respect to Common Lisp style, appropriate use of language features, and so forth. ...
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Reading lines of integers into a list of lists
I have a text file containing integers in different lines which I want to read into a list of lists.
So
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Calculating insulin bolus dose and infusion rate
I wrote a hobby program to ease the job of nurses to calculate insulin bolus dose and infusion rate according to measured blood glucose.
There are several protocols around. Almost all hospitals ...
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