Common Lisp Utilities

Note: this page is for historical purposes. See cl-utilities for the finished product.

The Common Lisp Utilities cliki page served as a collection of useful CL utilities. The idea to create a bigger package out of the small suggested packages here got momentum, and resulted in the creation of cl-utilities.

Motivated by the benefits of discussing design issues in public, possibly utilities "that everyone writes" could be canonicalized and (semi-)standardized.

SPLIT-SEQUENCE
EXTREMUM
READ-DELIMITED (name is up to debate) - reads a 'line' delimited by the specified character, optionally into a pre-allocated buffer
EXPT-MOD (name is up to debate) - calculates (mod (expt a b) m)
COLLECTING for collecting things into one or more lists
WITH-UNIQUE-NAMES executes a series of forms with variables bound to fresh, uninterned symbols
GENSYMLET binds fresh, uninterned symbols to values
ROTATE-BYTE bit-rotates a byte
ARGUMENT-LIST (name, purpose, raison d'etre up for debate) returns the arglist of a function - useful for editor interfaces, documentation generators etc. Code could be stolen from ILISP/SLIME/clocc-port for implementations that don't have their own.
SHALLOW-COPY-ARRAY
COMPOSE composes functions.
Also worth looking at PARSE-NUMBER
DECIMAL-NUMBER

Pages in this topic: COMPOSE DECIMAL-NUMBER EXPT-MOD EXTREMUM READ-DELIMITED SHALLOW-COPY-ARRAY SPLIT-SEQUENCE WITH-UNIQUE-NAMES

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