"the Phoeron" Colin J.E. Lupton
"the Phoeron" Colin J.E. Lupton
Just ugh and grrr
Extend the exercises on Packages to include an enlightening factoid from [The Complete Idiot's Guide to Common Lisp Packages](http://www.flownet.com/gat/packages.pdf) by Erann Gat: > "The most important thing to understand about...
Chapter 1.10, Functions and Macros, would also be better if it was split into two, so that more detail can be provided on both functions and macros, especially macro-expansion and...
Chapter 2.3, Objects and Control Flow is too large and unfocused. It would be better to split the control flow exercises out to their own chapter, and the Struct exercises...
I'm thinking the format for every exercise should evolve to meet the following template: - _Very_ brief intro to the subject, to close the problem domain - the code example...
Since it is out of keeping with Zed Shaw's LxTHW style, and seems to break the format, chapter 1.1 should be deprecated and the contents migrated to their appropriate exercises.
The user experience for LLTHW could be vastly improved with an asynchronous web application; currently the application runs on Hunchentoot—a thread-per-request server—which is inherently greedy in terms of system resources....
It would be useful for reference to display the `file-write-date` timestamp at the top of all chapter and exercise pages, so visitors can quickly see if the text has been...
A few issues with the quick-and-dirty hack to support the new implementation of backquotes in SBCL 1.2.2 were reported by @csrhodes: **File-Compiling:** there needs to be an `eval-when (:compile-toplevel :execute)`...
The `if-match` pruner has two notable problems, as reported by @csrhodes: **Lexically-contained `if-match` forms:** walk the `cadr` and `cdddr`, not `caddr` **Lexically-contained `when-match` forms:** just walk the `cadr`, not the...