Pascal Bourguignon  <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
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| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:
| 
| >    ;;; I don't know why I find myself needing this so often, but I do...
| >    (defun hash-table-alist (hash-table &key (test (constantly t)))
| >      (loop for key being each hash-key in hash-table using (hash-value value)
| >        when (funcall test key value)
| > 	 collect (cons key value)))
| 
| Perhaps in your implementation the hash-table are printed opaquely?
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Yup. CMUCL:  ;-}

    cmu> (make-hash-table)

    #<EQL hash table, 0 entries {4893DD45}>
    cmu> (loop for i in (iota 20) do (setf (gethash i *) (* i i)))

    NIL
    cmu> **

    #<EQL hash table, 20 entries {4893DD45}>
    cmu> (hash-table-alist *)  

    ((0 . 0) (1 . 1) (2 . 4) (3 . 9) (4 . 16) (5 . 25) (6 . 36)
     (7 . 49) (8 . 64) (9 . 81) (10 . 100) (11 . 121) (12 . 144)
     (13 . 169) (14 . 196) (15 . 225) (16 . 256) (17 . 289)
     (18 . 324) (19 . 361))
    cmu> 

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| > [4] No, I'm not going to clutter this article any more than
| >     it already is with my version of LOAD*. It's simple enough
| >     [mine's only ~40 lines, could be even shorter], and is a
| >     good beginner exercise for one to get used to building
| >     their own personalized "conveniences".
| 
| In some implementations it's also possible to define debugger or
| toplevel commands, so you can write some shortcut or specialized
| debugging functions for your program.
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Ah, yezz... :FOO or ,FOO at the top level. It's not in CMUCL
(by default), but I think there's a package mentioned somewhere
on CLiki that will do that, by replacing the top-level reader.

+---------------
| And if your editor is customizable, you can also add commands in the
| editor sending commands to the inferior lisp to automate some stuff,
| or add an easy interface to your lisp.
+---------------

Indeed, though since the OP said "emacs...can't get it to work", I
was trying to show that not having an "inferior lisp" connection at
all shouldn't be considered a deal-breaker obstacle to using Lisp
[and in fact, really isn't an obstacle at all].


-Rob

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