Re: postscript to lisp, plisp package error - Invalid read syntax: "#"

[Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com>]

Henrik Motakef <usenet-reply@henrik-motakef.de> writes:

> Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header (Henna) writes:
> 
> > I am trying to use it and finding errors. I have no lucid
> > lisp or any other, other than the emacs lisp. I have
> > tried to (require 'cl) without error.
> >
> >
> > (1)
> > I have renamed all files in plisp to be .el from .lisp since that 
> > is what
> > emacs seems to expect.
> 
> Emacs Lisp and Common Lisp are quite different languages, and (require
> 'cl) is merely cosmetic. It doesn't make the languages compatible. You
> won't be able to run Common Lisp programs in Emacs.

Yes you can, but it implies:
 
> But you can simply install a Common Lisp implementation. See
> <http://www.cliki.net/Common%20Lisp%20implementation> for a list of
> free ones, or <http://alu.cliki.net/Implementation> for commercial
> Lisps.

nocrew implements emacs-cl, a Common-Lisp implementation in Emacs:

http://www.nocrew.org/news.html?article=115
http://www.lisp.se/emacs-cl/

2003-12-04  Now you can run Common Lisp programs in Emacs, and write
Emacs extensions in Common Lisp.



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