Typographic conventions

These are the typographic conventions used in this book.

Code appearing inline in text paragraphs looks like this:

This code is inlined: (lambda () (format t "Hello World")).

This is a code block in a file.:

1 (defun hello-world ()
2   (format t "Hello World"))

The following characters represent various prompts:

A * represents a Lisp REPL(Read Eval Print Loop, the lisp interactive interpreter), => marks the returned result:

1  * (format nil "Hello World")
2  => "Hello World"

$ is a unix shell, # is a root shell, or code executed with sudo:

1  # apt-get install foo
2  $ foo --bar baz

> is a windows cmd.exe prompt:

1  > dir C:\