Re: elisp from CL transition guide

[Tassilo Horn]

Tamas Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Tamas,

> I have some Common Lisp programming experience, and would like to use
> Emacs Lisp for simple tasks.  I found introductions to Elisp, but what
> I am looking for is some guide that would tell me the differences from
> CL, to get started quicker.  I already found that there is no
> defparameter or format etc.

There's `format' but it's quite different.

> Is there some page where these differences are listed?

The biggest difference is dynamical versus lexical scoping.

And check out the `cl' library.  It defines many functions and macros CL
hackers might be missing, for example the allmighty `loop' or `setf'.

Bye,
Tassilo
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