dragonwriter on One Major Difference Between Clojure and Common Lisp

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It's true that it is more difficult to port from Common Lisp or other Lisp-2 dialects to Scheme, Racket, or Clojure (which are Lisp-1 dialects) than it would be to port to other Lisp-2 dialects. But that certainly doesn't make Lisp-1 dialects "not Lisp" while Lisp-2 dialects are "Lisp".

lispm 10y

Porting code from Lisp-2 to Lisp-1 is not that difficult.

Example:

Lisp-2:

    (defun new-map (f l)
      (dolist (e l)
        (funcall f e)))

Lisp-1:

    (defun new-map (f l)
      (dolist (e l)
         (f e)))

Another example:

Lisp-2

    (defun foo (l)
      (flet ((new-map (f l)
               (dolist (e l)
                  (f e))))
        (new-map (function sin) l)))

Lisp-1

    (defun foo (l)
      (let ((new-map (lambda (f l)
                       (dolist (e l)
                         (f e)))))
        (new-map sin l)))

To make it easier, just define FUNCALL, FUNCTION and FLET in Lisp-1...

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