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by p_l 1877 days ago
There are some famous examples[1], but to be honest, they are rare outliers for libraries published. And even for internal use, the amount of "local custom style" seems pretty minimal in my experience.

[1] Off the top of my head, I can recall Cells (early reactive/dataflow system - weirdness included symbol names made to sort first in Allegro CL IDE) and hu.dwim.* stuff which had its own wrapper around CL:DEFUN and CL:DEFMETHOD, iirc. But I successfully used their stuff without caring about that.
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diggan 1877 days ago
> There are some famous examples

As someone new to the ecosystem of Common Lisp and in general a bit sadist (ref https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZyvIHYn2zk), could you share which ones these are so I can enjoy not understanding them at all?

Edit: I see now after I made my comment you added examples, thanks :)

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p_l 1876 days ago
There's a long story of macros wrapping DEFUN/DEFGENERIC/DEFMETHOD/DEFCLASS. I'll admit I even used some for shortcuts in declaring types and constraints.

But their use isn't that widespread, and in practice you can pretty quickly get used to the rare case that needs you to understand them.

I think the most complex is stuff that requires code-walkers and involved things like macros for CPS transformers of code.

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