Tag: HyperSpec

A note on shortcircuiting of argument evaluation in #'<

by Jorge Tavares

There is an interesting thread in the Clozure Common Lisp development mailing list about argument evaluation in #'<. Until now, CCL was implementing shortcircuiting when evaluating the arguments of #'<. This essentially means that when calling (< 1 3 2 4 5) it would stop before evaluating all the arguments since it wold know it … Continue reading A note on shortcircuiting of argument evaluation in #'<

Packages organization and exporting symbols

by Jorge Tavares

I’ve started to re-design my main library for evolutionary computation. One of the main things I did for the new version was a complete new organization of the packages (and respective files/modules). Before I had essentially two main packages, the library itself and the examples. Although simple, it became a pain to use this model … Continue reading Packages organization and exporting symbols