On: Returning multiple values from functions in C++

[adwf]

Yeah, I use Alexandria by default in every project now. I remember when I first started coding in Lisp, I wrote a ton of obvious functions/macros like the missing hash table traversals that are in Alexandria but are rather bizarrely missing from the Common Lisp spec. Then I found Alexandria and realised I'd written a good fraction of those functions myself! This was pre-quicklisp, so library discoverability wasn't great.

Now I'm trying to make a concerted effort to follow the recommendations here:

http://eudoxia.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015/

Hopefully this will lead to a modern set of consolidated libraries. Effectively a new Common Lisp standard: CL-20xx

[lispm → adwf]

Common Lisp already provides various hash-table traversals with LOOP: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/06_aba...

[adwf → lispm]

That's a good point. I always tend to forget about loop because I don't use it all that much, prefer using the Iterate library. Loop is a whole extra language all on its own.