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13 Dec 13:50

vindarel

2023-12-13

41454ce

2023-12-13 Latest

Latest

These Cookbook improvements were made available by 18 contributors, with 108 commits since the last release. Thank you everybody for improving Common Lisp learning resources!

You can find the EPUB and the PDF attached, and you can pay what you want for them. Thanks for your support.

Changes include:

editors:

add SLT for Jetbrains
emacs-ide: more explanations to browse the CLHS offline
mention the new Community Spec
fix instructions for local CLHS lookup in Emacs
Atom -> Pulsar and list features
Lem 2.0
lispworks: saving images

debugging:

added a section on trace options
print is handy because it returns the result
add two screenshots, explain *features*, direct links to CLHS
detail the stepper, eval in frame, restart frame
mention SLY stepper and stickers
replace the Ultra Spec (abandoned) with the Community Spec
add subsection to emphasize resuming execution, embed video

CLOS and MOP:

new: explain update-instance-for-redefined-class, update-instance-for-different-class
difference between defgeneric and defmethod, how to remove a method (thanks galdor)

scripting:

changed: parse CLI args with Clingon
mention the new SBCL-GOODIES

GUI:

GUI: nice looking nodgui theme shipped in
mention gtk4 bindings
mention IUP's web browser window
mention CommonQt5

Operating System:

run visual commands like htop, vim and sudo
capture error output of run-program
delete duplicate CLI args parsing content
run-program strip newline with '(:string :stripped t)

Web:

running behind Nginx
request body with raw-post-data :force-text, JSON

Files and directories:

recursive collect example
recursively find files with find or fdfind
and directory: uiop:with-current-directory
file-attributes and sb-posix
how to get file name with Windows directory separator

index: decompose the front page's table of content in four main topics.
regexp: mention the super useful all-matches[-as-strings]
testing: running CI on SourceHut
fix typo, use declaim instead of declare
updated sbcl core compression session to zstd
add compression level and size comparison
iteration: add example for looping over values
style: use uninterned symbols in defpackage for functions
functions: more about #' and '
strings: list of FORMAT directives
getting started++, refer to packages
packages: examples, export, import, use-package, :use
Deploy: silence start-up messages with :deploy-console
threads: mention timeout with bt:with-timeout
type: checking &rest, examples with enum types
fix: defsystem alone is not enough, should be asdf:defsystem
systems: refer to how to load an existing project
systems: load an asdf system with load-system, not asdf:make
(minor) databases: add field type text
local-time: more formatting symbols (long and short weekday, month etc)
packages: example with add-package-local-nickname
package: #: better phrasing
package: local nicknames first, discourage global ones
fix truncated snippets for PDF

Thanks to: jgart, Jiho Sung, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou, ctoid, Colin Woodbury, Giorgos Makris, Inc0n, Kevin Secretan, Kilian M. Haemmerle, NCM, Paul Nathan, Ralf Doering, blackeuler, dangerdyke, grobe0ba, kilianmh, reflektoin, and me (vindarel).

Happy lisping.

(edit +3 days: re-uploaded documents with fixed release date)

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14 Sep 17:12

vindarel

2022-09-14

fce8e24

September, 14th: readibility improvements

These Cookbook improvements were made available by 13 contributors since last release, in March.

Thanks to @johanwiden (a first time contributor, even), the EPUB and PDF got great readability improvements:

the EPUB can be read in Emacs' nov.el reader
internal links now work
tables where changed from markdown to html tables
many fixes while generating the EPUB
more typos and grammar fixes

Moreover:

files and directories:
- added how to set the current working directory with UIOP
- new "Create pathname components" section
scripting:
- build a standalone binary with Deploy (and handle foreign libraries such as libssl, deal with ASDF etc)
- mention SBCL 2.2.6 zstd core compression gains
getting started: mention rlwrap -c trick to autocomplete file names
iteration: mention iterate's in-sequence
Emacs: better example of Emacs' C-u M-( command
web: improve Systemd section
add favicon
fixed an example that was using load instead of asdf:load-asd
a missing Lem screenshot to show it in action as a Lisp REPL in the terminal was added:

You can pay what you want for the Common Lisp Cookbook on ko-fi.

thanks to @JohnCoconut @jgarte @contrapunctus-1 @kilianmh @tinkerttoy @chuchana @pnathan @djuber @augustfengd @alaskasquirrel.

Contributors

pnathan, djuber, and 9 other contributors

Assets 4

30 Aug 09:43

vindarel

2022-08-30

e18597d

2022-08-30 (minor) Pre-release

Pre-release

fix epub format so it can be read in nov.el

Assets 3

23 Mar 11:23

vindarel

2022-03-23

acea1c0

2022-03-23

added the LispWorks in the ePUB and PDF
iteration: added iterate gotchas and dotimes return values
ppcre: added replace text with regexp
GUI: completed the bodge-ui example, mention new Allegro CG/JS and add link to GTK nice tutorial.
strings: added more format examples
performance: added block compilation
directories: added merge-pathnames, get current working directory, system-relative-pathname
more bug fixes and typos

Thanks to the new contributors!

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21 Sep 16:00

vindarel

2021-09-21

37b080c

2021-09-21

new page: VSCode with the Alive extension
new page: the LispWorks IDE
re-wrote the testing page with FiveAM. Added mention of Mockingbird and example of random testing.
iteration: unique features of Iterate

Other enhancements:

data structures: pretty-print hash tables with Serapeum's dict (portable and readable)
thread-safe hash tables
many broken URL fixes
DB: compose queries with ,@ and backquote
functions: how to know if a key parameter was supplied ((&key (foo t foo-p))).
the EPUB and PDF did not include the data structures page O_o
data structures: add mismatch, adjoin, subsetp, explain stable-sort. alexandria:subseq*
updated the contributor steps

Thanks to all the (new) contributors!

Assets 4