Re: another frustrating learner question, CLOS

piscesboy <oraclmaster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Often, it is through simple trial and error that I find functions for
which I spent the last few hair pulling days that already exist in the
existing Lisp packages, negating a lot of my work moot. It would be
nice if the documenation and usage of all functions and classes in the
standard user package and CLOS were documented mainly so I don't waste
time writing something that already exists in a package.

Forgive me if this is already the case, and if it is then point me in
that direction.

I found Sonya Keene's "Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp" a
great tutorial for CLOS. "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol" clarified
to me why some of the protocols work the way they do. After knowing the
basics, the documentation in the spec was easier to follow.

I like Joe Marshall's "Warp Speed Introduction to CLOS", available
online:

http://eval.apply.googlepages.com/guide.html

Chapters 16 and 17 in "Practical Common Lisp" (online at
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/) illustrate the power of CLOS very
well.

Zach
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