Re: elisp from CL transition guide

[Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Tamas Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.  Is there some page where these
> differences are listed?

The main gotcha is that in emacs lisp there is only dynamic binding,
no lexical binding (and therefore no closure).

What you could do is to still use Common Lisp to program emacs lisp
stuff, with emacs-cl, which is a CL implementation.


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