Re: thanks from a newbie !!

Aleksandar Matijaca <amatijaca@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you all so much for helping me understand the whole key/value thing.
> I wanted to make sure I really understand this, before going further with the
> book, because, if I don't get this "right", I will have major problems
> later...

Yes, but note that the chapter you mention (3) serves only as an
introductory example, without going into the details. The second
paragraph of chapter 3 states: 
"In this chapter, I'll cover just enough Lisp as we go along for you to
understand how the code works. But I'll gloss over quite a few
details. For now you needn't sweat the small stuff--the next several
chapters will cover all the Common Lisp constructs used here, and more,
in a much more systematic way." 

So, I won't worry too much if things seems a bit fuzzy after reading
chapter 3 only.


> Last time I did lisp was in 1984, and I think that at that time I was too
> immature to really understand the subtlety and power of lisp.
>
> I obviously have to stop assigning too much structure to lisp, and think about
> it in terms of "building a lot" with a lot of small and relatively simple components,
> in the same spirit of what Unix command line does...  I think that I have spent
> too much time in the Java world :-|
>
> Regards, Alex.