Augment the docstring of built-in functions and macros with more explanations and examples.

Let's see how useful it is for newcomers.

This is part of CIEL (CIEL Is an Extended Lisp).

A few functions are done:

• loop: no docstring by default. It becomes

The basic LOOP structure is

(loop for x in (list x y z)
   do …)

"do" is for side effects.

Use "collect" to return results:

(loop for x in (list 1 2 3)
  collect (* x 10))

To iterate over arrays, use "across" instead of "in".

To iterate over hash-tables… try MAPHASH first :D

For many examples, see the CL Cookbook:
https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/iteration.html

• mapcar, mapcan
• maphash
• sort
• loop
• defun, defmacro
• defclass, defgeneric, print-object
• defstruct
• find
• with-open-file
• round

and variables:

• *default-pathname-defaults*

and that's it. To be continued.

A gotcha though:

• we are modifying the symbols in the :cl package, there is currently no way to "undo" these additions.

Installation

This library is on Ultralisp.