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DEFINER
Created by marcoxa on: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:05:02 GMT, Last modification: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:05:02 GMT

The DEFINER library contains an extension to Common Lisp that allows programmer to nicely reuse some common "definition" idioms.

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Maturity	Stable
OS compatibility	All.
ASDF installable	Yes
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Source code repository	http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/definer/?cvsroot=definer

The DEFINER library contains an extension to Common Lisp that allows programmer to nicely reuse some common "definition" idioms.

Many CL packages extend the language by adding a slew of macros that look like the following:

  (defsomething ...)

and/or

  (define-something-else ...)

Well, wouldn't it be nice to have a more controlled way to do that? DEFINER is for you. A quick hack where we extend CL to define more complex definition forms.

The idea is to provide a general macro def and a specialized generic function for further extensions.

The end result is to make Common Lisp definitions look like Python. Of course, with a twist. def is written completely in Common Lisp, and in Python you need to hack the parser to extend the behavior of def.

Authors and Maintainers

Marco Antoniotti

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Language Extensions | Libraries

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