CompuServe Messages

Dan – Ahhhh yes. XLISP 2.0 is a relatively more-robust subset of Common LISP, which is somewhat different from the LISP dialects that earlier versions of XLISP (and AutoLISP) are based on. For example, you won't find (while), (foreach) or (repeat) in XLISP, but you will find (do), (dolist), and (dotimes), which provide the same functions as the former AutoLISP primitives, only in a different syntax. I also had a hard time with XLISP when I first started playing with it, but now I'm pretty comfortable with it. I have an XLISP file that's designed for AutoLISP programmers who want to use XLISP. It adds many of the AutoLISP functions they're familar with (including a (getstring) variant), which makes the transition much less painless. As soon as I can get a chance to clean the file up, I'll upload it here. Look for the file AXLISP.LSP in Library 9 in a day or so. -TonyT.