On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:25 PM, alux <alu...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I much enjoyed reading the tutorial http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html
> , mentioned by eyeris today. The most mind-extending thing (to me,
> having Java background) is the, admittedly non-idiomatic, use of
> symbols as data.
>
> But I have two translation problems, I want to pose before going to
> sleep (its pitch dark in Europe :). First the easy one:
>
> Common Lisp
> (defun describe-path (path)
>  `(there is a ,(second path) going ,(first path) from here.))
>

You probably want

(defn describe-path [path]
   `(~'there ~'is ~'a ~(second path) ~'going ~(first path) ~'from ~'here))

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