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<b>Note: this page is for historical purposes. See _(cl-utilities) for the finished product.</b> 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). <hr> Motivated by the benefits of discussing design issues in public, possibly utilities "that everyone writes" could be canonicalized and (semi-)standardized. <ul> <li>_(SPLIT-SEQUENCE) <li>_(EXTREMUM) <li>_(READ-DELIMITED) (name is up to debate) - reads a 'line' delimited by the specified character, optionally into a pre-allocated buffer <li> _(EXPT-MOD) (name is up to debate) - calculates (mod (expt a b) m) <li>_(COLLECTING) for collecting things into one or more lists <li>_(WITH-UNIQUE-NAMES) executes a series of forms with variables bound to fresh, uninterned symbols <li>_(GENSYMLET) binds fresh, uninterned symbols to values <li>_(ROTATE-BYTE) bit-rotates a byte <li>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. <li>_(SHALLOW-COPY-ARRAY) <li>_(COMPOSE) composes functions. <li>Also worth looking at _(PARSE-NUMBER) <li>_(DECIMAL-NUMBER) </ul>
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