Gettmg Started with MCL

Getting Started with Macintosh Common Lisp

Getting Started with Macintosh Common Lisp

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Introduction

Introducing Macintosh Common Lisp

MCL 4.0 and 3.1

Roadmap: Learning MCL

For more information

MCL Discussions and Announcements

Technical Support and Bug Reports

Other Internet Resources

The Digitool Web Page

The MCL ftp Site

Contacting Digitool

Chapter 1: Installing MCL

System requirements

MCL 4.0

MCL 3.1

Installation

Installing MCL 4.0

MCL 4.0 Memory Requirements

Installing MCL 3.1

MCL 3.1 Memory Requirements

Creating Installation Floppies

Chapter 2: A Brief Tour of MCL

Overview of MCL

Starting MCL

Interacting with the Listener

Evaluating expressions

Working with the Listener

The Listener and the Lisp Heap

The Listener and text files

The MCL editor, Fred

Creating a Fred window

Executing expressions in a Fred window

Lisp-based editing

Matching delimiters

Auto-indentation

Cutting and pasting with Emacs commands

Executing your program

Saving source code to a file

Getting help on Fred commands

Getting help on Listener commands

Other Window Features

Compiling files

What you've learned

Chapter 3: The Application Framework

Overview

Windows and views

Creating a window

Window init-keywords

Views and subviews

Adding a button

Adding an editable text item

Retrieving the text from an editable text item

Creating a complex window

Menus

Adding a menu and a menu-item

The interface toolkit

Preserving programming sessions

What you've learned

Chapter 4: Debugging

MCL's multiple debugging facilities

Documentation commands

Source code

Argument lists

Documentation

Introspection commands

Free space

Finding symbols

The apropos function

The apropos window

Examining objects with the Inspector

Inspecting an object with inspect

Inspecting objects from other tool windows

Errors and Break Loops

Reading an error message

Recovering or aborting

Aborting

The break loop

The stack backtrace

Processes

The stepper

Trace

What you've learned about debugging

Chapter 5: Sources of Additional Information

Common Lisp References

Common Lisp Tutorials

If you are learning CLOS

Macintosh Programming

Examples

Appendix A: Fred Commands

Fred modifier keys

Help commands

Movement

Selection

Insertion

Deletion

Lisp operations

Windows

Incremental search

Appendix B: The Common Lisp Object System

MCL and CLOS

Definitions

Classes and their superclasses

Slots

Instances

Generic functions and methods

Classes and instances

Creating a class with the macro defclass

Creating an instance and giving its slots values

Redefining a class

Allocating the value of a slot in a class

Classes as prototypes of other classes

Methods

Defining a method and creating a generic function

Congruent lambda lists

Defining methods on instances

Creating and using accessor methods

Customizing initialization with initialize-instance

Creating subclasses and specializing their methods

Method combination

The primary method

The primary method and the class precedence list

Examples of classes with multiple superclasses

When there is a conflict: Choosing between methods

Choosing between methods associated with direct and with more distant superclasses

Creating auxiliary methods and using method qualifiers

Mixin classes and auxiliary methods

Extended examples

Appendix C: The MCL Menubar

The MCL Menubar

Apple menu

File menu

Edit menu

Lisp menu

Tools menu

Windows menu

The DIGITOOL Publishing System

Index

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