On Lisp

On Lisp is a comprehensive study of advanced Lisp techniques. It gives the first complete description of macros and macro applications. This book is intended for anyone who wants to become a better Lisp programmer.

Book Description

It assumes some familiarity with Lisp, but not necessarily extensive programming experience. The first few chapters contain a fair amount of review. I hope that these sections will be interesting to more experienced Lisp programmers as well, because they present familiar subjects in a new light.

Table of Contents

• The Extensible Language
• Functions
• Functional Programming
• Utility Functions
• Returning Functions
• Functions as Representation
• Macros
• When to Use Macros
• Variable Capture
• Other Macro Pitfalls
• Classic Macros
• Generalized Variables
• Computation at Compile-Time
• Anaphoric Macros
• Macros Returning Functions
• Macro-Defining Macros
• Read-Macros
• Destructuring
• A Query Compiler
• Continuations
• Multiple Processes
• Nondeterminism
• Parsing with ATNs
• Prolog
• Object-Oriented Lisp

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