Questions tagged [ansi-common-lisp]

I was trying make a function that return the closing bracket of a given opening bracket, I already can do this, but in my first attempt I can't understand where is my error, and I would like know to avoid the same problem in the future, here is my…

I am reading the Common Lisp Hyperspec and am struggling to understand the concept behind the Special declaration. Namely, what are the special variables and why would we want them? I gathered that somehow we can change which scope the variable…

In Scheme, you define functions like (define f (lambda (x) ...)) In particular, you can do something like this (define f (g)) where g is some function returning a function. Is it possible to do the same in Common Lisp, i.e. to associate a function…

I am very new to lisp. I am trying to write a function named x2y which takes 2 arguments x and y which are integers and return a list of integers which starts from x and ends at y (defun xtoy (X Y) (cond ((> X Y) (list nil)) ((= X Y)…