Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:59:57 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Resources to learn common lisp? References: <110rfqf$142ot$1@dont-email.me> <111pbk6$36pi7$1@dont-email.me> <111sb7u$3ua8h$7@dont-email.me> <8fj54lpvg7v6mhi9r9u39tpojbjage8br4@4ax.com> <87mrwdyt0t.fsf@nightsong.com> <1127cho$34rpg$3@dont-email.me> <112o4aa$cpek$2@dont-email.me> <87jyqdtumj.fsf@gmail.com> <87bjbn2nhs.fsf@safunu.org> <877bm4zgsp.fsf@safunu.org> <1150b48$3blde$3@dont-email.me> <1151bo2$3je6l$1@dont-email.me> <1j7a7l1e7vcohcb5kk6qut59g68op71fqi@4ax.com> <11548up$1cpco$1@paganini.bofh.team> <20260808104932.527@kylheku.com> <87mruuvr20.fsf@gmail.com> <115i364$tr2u$1@dont-email.me> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:59:57 -0400 Message-ID: <87jypmuaxu.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dbaNWDfRYPse87QCuh51OrLBchE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-ej4w0Ly2g6xL6fz1iYEXa0wf0EV+0PUKh4LOjSgvvvaJ8tSZBEaPtAYonF13gffHAV6CqmgF7wbSJzV!OwHR7S9HtgWipoNyglX2SbaSbqCZo36fNO+lHOJknvdWUSI= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.lisp:61508 tfb writes: > steve g wrote: >> >> I liked the idea of >> >> (with-current-readtable (xyz) >> ...) >> > That is unuseful unless the body is a bunch of file compilations / loads. > It should be apparent why. I don't follow.