Re: Interesting Listener Behavior...

Am 24.08.2008 um 20:18 schrieb David McClain:

>
> I just finished my session of tutoring a bright young man in Lisp.  
> We meet every two weeks. He's 13, and I want to get him off to a  
> good start with programming....
>
> Anyway, he just showed me something I didn't know about Lispworks,  
> and it seems like non-standard behavior to me, but it can be  
> convenient...

>
>
> Try adding a list of numbers like this in the listener:
>
> + 2 3 4
>
> (No parentheses!! )

Nice finding. That's known for LispWorks. Though I don't use it and  
tend to forget it.

>
Though, sometimes I miss 'closing-the-last-open-parenthesis-executes'  
that I've used in some other Listener...

Regards,

Rainer Joswig

>
> Dr. David McClain
> Chief Technical Officer
> Refined Audiometrics Laboratory
> 4391 N. Camino Ferreo
> Tucson, AZ  85750

Rainer Joswig, Hamburg, Germany
http://lispm.dyndns.org/
mailto:joswig@lisp.de