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Chapter 1: Common Lisp Extensions

This document describes a set of Emacs Lisp facilities borrowed from Common Lisp. All the facilities are described here in detail. While this document does not assume any prior knowledge of Common Lisp, it does assume a basic familiarity with Emacs Lisp.

Overview Installation, usage, etc.

Program Structure Arglists, `eval-when', `defalias'

Predicates `typep', `eql', and `equalp'

Control Structure `setf', `when', `do', `loop', etc.

Macros Destructuring, `define-compiler-macro'

Declarations `proclaim', `declare', etc.

Symbols Property lists, `gensym'

Numbers Predicates, functions, random numbers

Sequences Mapping, functions, searching, sorting

Lists `cadr', `sublis', `member*', `assoc*', etc.

Hash Tables `make-hash-table', `gethash', etc.

Structures `defstruct'