22:25:14aethI always use the "f0" suffix for floats because it's fairly common to have *read-default-float-format* as DOUBLE-FLOAT and I even do that sometimes when I'm using CL as a calculator, and it absolutely breaks everything.
22:25:28aethBut I don't think I'd write defensively for a different *read-base* because that's a whole other level of things breaking.
8:46:37beachakronymus: If you start greeting people who did not utter anything, you will generate hundreds of greetings per hour, thereby adding lots of noise.
8:49:30akronymusSomewhat similar to sicp, I've been told.
8:49:38contrapunctusminion: HTDP is How To Design Programs
8:49:38minionHTDP is How To Design Programs: An error was encountered in lookup: Attempt to call an undefined alien function..
8:49:57phoeminion: are you responding to everything with this alien function stuff
8:49:58minionare you responding to everything with this alien function stuff: An error was encountered in lookup: Attempt to call an undefined alien function..
8:50:04minionphoe: direct your attention towards gentle: "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" is a smoother introduction to lisp programming. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
8:50:09beachOh, so it is Scheme rather than Common Lisp?
8:52:56minionLisp: "Lisp in Small Pieces". This book covers Lisp, Scheme and other related dialects, their interpretation, semantics and compilation. To sum it up in a few figures: 500 pages, 11 chapters, 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. <http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html>