Newport Reference Manual

Time

CURRENT-TIME
Print the current time to the stream (defaults to t).

STRING->TZ
Find the OBJ (symbol or string) in +TIME-ZONES+.

TZ->STRING
Convert the CL timezone (rational [-24;24], multiple of 3600) to a string.

+TIME-ZONES+
The string representations of the time zones.

+WEEK-DAYS+
The names of the days of the week.

+MONTH-NAMES+
The names of the months.

Structures

STRUCTURE-PREDICATE
Return the structure predicate name.

STRUCTURE-COPIER
Return the structure copier name.

STRUCTURE-BOA-CONSTRUCTORS
Return the list of structure BOA constructor names.

STRUCTURE-KEYWORD-CONSTRUCTOR
Return the structure keyword constructor name.

STRUCTURE-SLOTS
Return the list of structure slot names.

Classes

CLASS-SLOT-INITARGS
Return the list of initargs of a CLASS. CLASS can be a symbol, a class object (as returned by `class-of') or an instance of a class. If the second optional argument ALL is non-NIL (default), initargs for all slots are returned, otherwise only the slots with :allocation type :instance are returned.

CLASS-SLOT-LIST
Return the list of slots of a CLASS. CLASS can be a symbol, a class object (as returned by `class-of') or an instance of a class. If the second optional argument ALL is non-NIL (default), all slots are returned, otherwise only the slots with :allocation type :instance are returned.

System

SYSINFO
Print the current environment to a stream.


VARIABLE-SPECIAL-P
Return T if the symbol names a global special variable.

GETENV
Set an environment variable.

GETENV
Return the value of the environment variable.

DEFAULT-DIRECTORY
The default directory.

Pipes

WITH-OPEN-PIPE
Open the pipe, do something, then close it.

CLOSE-PIPE
Close the pipe stream.

PIPE-INPUT
Return an input stream from which the command output will be read.

PIPE-OUTPUT
Return an output stream which will go to the command.

RUN-PROG
Common interface to shell. Does not return anything useful.

Conditions

NOT-IMPLEMENTED
Your implementation does not support this functionality.

CODE
An error in the user code.

CL Utils

ARGLIST
Return the signature of the function.

VARIABLE-NOT-SPECIAL
Undo the global special declaration. This returns a _new_ symbol with the same name, package, fdefinition, and plist as the argument. This can be confused by imported symbols. Also, (FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION (FDEFINITION NEW)) will return the OLD (uninterned!) symbol as its 3rd value. BEWARE!
MK-ARR
Make array with elements of TYPE, initializing.

COMPOSE
Make a new function by composition of previous functions.

DEFCONST
Define a typed constant.

Acknowledgements

To the CL Gardeners project (now defunct) which suggested this activity.
To:
bordeaux-threads (threading)
usocket (sockets)
CLOCC's obsolete PORT
trivial gray streams
trivial garbage
closer-mop
cl-fad (pathnames)
for obsoleting *most* of CLOCC PORT.