Re: Lisp Thesaurus



"Nikhil Ketkar" <nikhilketkar@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> organizing the information.What I would like to have is to have
> information organised like thesaurus where I start looking for what I
> want to do and get the constructs relevant to it. Consider a trival
> example, I have to write a simple program that uses Huffman encoding to
> compress a file. For this I would need to operate at a bit level. I
> need to know what constructs Lisp has to get the job done. The way I do

Try this form at your favorite Lisp listener:

(apropos "BIT" :cl)

or just:

(apropos "BIT")

if you are not interested in portability.


Paolo
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- CL-PPCRE: regular expressions
- UFFI: Foreign Function Interface
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