From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!kpno!arizona!rogerh
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Title: Re: Beginners guide to Franz Lisp as promised
Article-I.D.: arizona.2107
Posted: Sat May  7 11:15:35 1983
Received: Thu May 19 02:27:51 1983
References: unc.5172

Yes, we have the Gosling Emacs electric-lisp-mode working.  I usually
have one window running Lisp, another editing the relevant function
definition file(s).  S'wonderful.  There are a couple problems: the
formatting, while better than the Franz Lisp pretty-printer, is not
perfect; and it gets real confused about the end of a function.  My
workaround for the second is Never begin a line with a close-paren.

I have a couple questions:

Does the "CMU toplevel" really exist?  I found the source, or at least
something that must be the source, but it don't load.

Has anyone messed with funargs?  It seems, on cursory examination, that
the tools are there to write a closure function -- a function to close
a functional form so that any free variables of the form are evaluated
in the environment extant at the point of application of the closure
function (whew!) -- but I can't find one in the manual.

	Roger Hayes
	University of Arizona
	arizona!rogerh
	
PS: We have Opus 36 of Franz Lisp;  I can't find a version number on
our electric-lisp.ml . rh.