then wats the point of dis forum then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the truth is u dont know wat ur talking about i only wanted help so I can learn


thanks for nothing

Sigh...

If you don't know anything about the language you're using, how do you expect to do anything useful with it? Are you just going to go around asking people to write code for you, without learning anything?

Here's one book you can buy:

http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html

Here is a pdf to On Lisp, which assumes you know a bit about the language already...

http://www.paulgraham.com/lib/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf

There are countless resources for learning this language online, and I am not in the mood to tell you basics that you could look up for yourself.

And here's the one I was looking for:
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

ok guys y does dis dont work (defparameter *car* (Ford (Fieata Mondeo Focus)))

so wat i am trying to say that ford is a list and within dat list there a fieasta and moneo and focus

but when i ran it in Lisp it dont work so wat wrong with it

You have probably written it incorrectly.

Your problem is that you don't have a function named Ford, and that's what your Lisp interpreter is looking for. If you want to assign a list to the value, you should assign a list; right now your code wants to call a procedure named Fieata, too...

Thanks ok now I want to create another list where it will put the ford item into another list so the current ford list becomes nill because its being push to another list how do i do dat any ideas

(defparameter *ford* (list ' Fieata ' Mondeo ' Focus))

(defparameter *newFord* ( () ;;which is nill

If you bothered to learn the basics of the language, you'd know the answer.

Watch out with variable names...especially in this situation: CAR is a function in Lisp, so I would name the variable *cars* instead.

It's also not working, because you haven't defined the symbols Ford, Fiesta, Focus and Mondeo anywhere. Unless you want to define them like this: (defparameter car-name (cons "car model" "car brand")), you will have to assign them as strings in lists: (defparameter *cars* (cons "Ford" (list "Focus" "Fiesta" "Mondeo")))

I hope you find this of some use - even though this thread is approximately 10 months old.


NOTE: When discussing Lisp, all functions are always typed in caps.
NOTE: If you don't know what CONS lists are, look them up - they're almost always one of the first things covered in any Lisp book/reference.