From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Primitives for "stings" References: <3bd20c4b.167275@news.online.no> <87sncdssx6.fsf@orion.bln.pmsf.de> <3bd2c087.428654@news.online.no> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3212658210473535@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:03:31 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1003669411 193.71.66.49 (Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:03:31 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:03:31 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:18311 * ab_talebi_29@yahoo.com (ab talebi) | Yes, I think I'll just have to think of another approach because I | really need Car, and Rest It looks like you are thinking in C, where incrementing a pointer effectively gives you rest for vectors (one-dimensional arrays). | How can we use the Read-Line function and end up with a list instead | of a string? See the function coerce. Which books and other resources are you using to study Common Lisp? /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate. -- The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. -- Richard Hamming