16:48:31beachI guess userself was not pleased with our recommendations.
17:01:37ckonstanskiI started my lisp journey with Practical Common Lisp. Not only was it a great introduction to lisp, it also offered some sort of easy-to-use solution for getting a lisp environment spun up. Was it called maclisp or something? Never used it. Install lisp, configure quicklisp and install slime in your emacs. What more is there to do?
19:29:22Shinmerayou could also do a (let (foo) ;; ... (setf foo ..)) I guess
19:36:20_deathWhite_Flame: I had a case like this recently.. it felt icky, sure, but I managed to get over it, since it happens so rarely.. in fact I think later on the code structure changed and it was no longer an issue
19:38:24_deaththere are still cases like this in the code, but with empty cond clause bodies
19:38:50White_Flameyeah, I turn those into explicit NILs
19:40:08_deaththe comment is usually ;; So and so, do nothing.
19:40:48_deathbut like I said, I don't let it bother me too much :)
19:41:16White_Flamebtw, what code base are you working on?
19:41:49White_Flameas the only place I've seen empty cond causes so far was cyc stuff
19:42:09_deathpersonal stuff... atm probabilistic graphical models stuff (I mentioned it some time ago)