Archive for June, 2016

Let us continue where we left off last time. List Patterns If the incoming argument is a list, then we can use two types of list patterns to match the list elements, namely, list and list*. (match ‘(a b c)  ((list ‘a ‘b X) X)) => c This list pattern begins with the list keyword. […]

In the previous two posts, we looked at external tools and libraries that can be used along with Opusmodus for algorithmic composition. In this post, I want to introduce another interesting Lisp library called Optima. Optima is a powerful library for pattern matching. Often, when we talk of pattern matching, the topic revolves around regular expressions. […]