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Common Lisp Extensions

1. Common Lisp Extensions

This document describes a set of Emacs Lisp facilities borrowed from Common Lisp. All the facilities are described here in detail. While this document does not assume any prior knowledge of Common Lisp, it does assume a basic familiarity with Emacs Lisp.

2. Overview		Installation, usage, etc.
3. Program Structure		Arglists, `eval-when', `defalias'
4. Predicates		`typep', `eql', and `equalp'
5. Control Structure		`setf', `do', `loop', etc.
6. Macros		Destructuring, `define-compiler-macro'
7. Declarations		`proclaim', `declare', etc.
8. Symbols		Property lists, `gensym'
9. Numbers		Predicates, functions, random numbers
10. Sequences		Mapping, functions, searching, sorting
11. Lists		`cadr', `sublis', `member*', `assoc*', etc.
12. Structures		`defstruct'
13. Assertions and Errors		`check-type', `assert', `ignore-errors'.

A. Efficiency Concerns		Hints and techniques
B. Common Lisp Compatibility		All known differences with Steele
C. Old CL Compatibility		All known differences with old cl.el
D. Porting Common Lisp		Hints for porting Common Lisp code

Function Index
Variable Index