Lisp – Introduction יעל נצר מערכות נבונות סמסטר ב' תשס"ו.

Lisp – Introduction

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• http://clisp.cons.org/

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/clisp

LISP – (LISt Processing)

1. Parenthesized prefix notation: (+ 2 4)2. Expressions can be nested: (- (+ 2 3 4 5) (* 2 5))3. Evaluation rule: apply function to value of arguments.4. Symbolic computation: other types Primitive: numbers, characters, strings, symbols. Compound: lists. (append '(a b) '(c d)) --> (a b c d) Quote: block the evaluation of the following expression. '(a b) --> (a b) (a b) --> error: a undefined function.5. Self-evaluating types: numbers, characters, strings.6. Symbols as variables - not case sensitive.

VARIABLES

1. Define new objects in terms of others + name them.

2. (setf p '(a b)) --> (a b)

p --> (a b)

3. Symbols also used to name functions.

SPECIAL FORMS:

1. Forms not evaluated according to the evaluation rule.

2. Special forms:

defun, defparameter, setf, let, case, if, function, quote.

LISTS

1. Primitive aggregating type.

2. Primitive functions: first, second, ..., length, last. append, cons, list.

DEFINING NEW FUNCTIONS:

1. (defun <name> (<parameters>) "doc" <body>)

(defun last-name (name) "Select last name from a name represented

as a list." (first (last name)))(last-name '(john r vandamme)) --> vandamme(last-name '(john quirk MD)) --> MD2. Importance of abstraction. (defun first-name (name) (first name))

USING FUNCTIONS:

1. (setf names '((john x ford) (peter p rabbit) (fabianna f wayne)))

(mapcar #'last-name names) --> (ford rabbit wayne) #' from name of function to function object.mapcar primitive.2. (defparameter *titles*

'(Mr Mrs Miss Madam Ms Sir Dr Admiral Major General)) (defun first-name (name) "Select first name from a list representing a name." (if (member (first name) *titles*) (first-name (rest name)) (first name))) (if <test> <then-part> <else-part>)

(first-name '(Madam Major General Paula Jones)) --> Paula

3. Trace functions

HIGHER ORDER FUNCTIONS

1. Functions as first-class objects: can be manipulated, created, modified by running code.

2. Apply: (apply #'+ '(1 2 3 4)) --> 103. Funcall: (funcall #'+ 1 2) --> 3 (funcall #'+ '(1 2)) -->

error (1 2) is not a number.4. Function constructor: lambda. (lambda (parameter ...) body...): non atomic name of a function. ((lambda (x) (+ x 2)) 4) --> 6 (funcall #'(lambda (x) (* x 2)) 4) -->

8 ***Can create functions at run time.***

OTHER DATA TYPES

1. Strings: (length "abc") --> 3

2. Many number types.

LISP EVALUATION RULE1. Every expression is either a list or an atom.

2. Every list to be evaluated is either a special form or a functionapplication.

3. A special form expression is a list whose first element is a special form operator and is evaluated according to the special rule of that operator.

4. A function application is evaluated by first evaluating the arguments (the rest of the list) and then finding the function named by the first element of the list and applying it to the list of evaluated arguments.

5. Every atom is either a symbol or a non-symbol.

6. A symbol evaluates to the most recent value assigned to the variable.

7. A non-symbol atom evaluates to itself.

WHAT MAKES LISP DIFFERENT

1. Built-in support for Lists.

2. Automatic memory management.

3. Dynamic typing.

4. First-class functions.

5. Uniform syntax.

6. Extensibility

Why LISP?

– Especially designed for symbol manipulation.– Provides built-in support for lists (“everything is a

list..”)– Automatic storage management (no need to

keep track of memory allocation). – Interactive environment, which allows programs

to be developed step by step. That is, if a change is to be introduced, only changed functions need to be recompiled.

Everything's a List!

• Data

• Functions

• Simple syntax:(function-name arg1 arg2 …)

(a b c)

(defun plus (x y)(+ x y))

Interpreted & interactive

• Interpreted

• Interactive USER(1): 1212USER(2): (+ 12 3)15USER(3): (setf Almost-age 31)31USER(4): Almost-age31USER(5): 'Almost-ageALMOST-AGEUSER(6):

Symbolic

• Why do we care about symbols?– Understand human cognition with a language

like symbolic processing

Physical Symbol System Hypothesis

"A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action." (Newell & Simon 1976)

• Physical symbol system– Set of entities called symbols - physical

patterns that can occur as components

– Expressions (or symbol structures) built of symbols

Dynamic

• Functions are first-class objects– Pass functions as arguments to other functions

USER(2): (apply #'+ '(1 2 3))6

USER(1): (+ 1 2 3)6

One Function, and a Side of Fries, To Go

• Create functions on the fly

• Lisp contains itself: eval

USER(1): (funcall #'(lambda (x y) (+ x y))17 14)

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Name Calling

• Lisp remembers function names separately from variable names

USER(22): (defun add (x y) (+ x y))ADDUSER(23): (setf add 9)9

USER(24): add9

USER(25): #'add#<Interpreted Function ADD>

Basic terminology

• Atoms: word-like indivisible objects which can be numbers or symbols.• Lists: sentence-like objects formed from atoms or other lists, and

enclosed in parentheses.• S-expressions: compositions of atoms and lists.• Procedures: step by step specifications how to do something.

– Primitives: procedures supplied by the LISP itself Example: (+ 5 6)– User-defined procedures: procedures introduced by the

programmer.Example: (students 'anna)

• Program: a collection of procedures working together.

S-expressions

• An s-expression can have other s-expressions nested in it. Examples: (+ (* 5 7) ( / 2 4))

(This (is a dog) (or a cat))

• Expressions can be interpreted both, procedurally and declaratively. – If interpreted procedurally, an expression provides a direction for

doing something. Such an expression is called a form, and its first element is the name of a procedure to be used to produce the value.

– The process of computing the value of an expression is called evaluation.

– If interpreted declaratively, expressions represent data.

Data and procedures have the same syntax.

Evaluation of atoms

• The value of a number is the number itself.Example: 5 ==> 5

• The value of a string is the string itself.Example: “Nice day” ==> “Nice day”

• The value of the symbol T is T (true).• The value of the symbol NIL is NIL (false).• The symbol NIL and the empty list ( ) are the same thing. • Variables are names of memory locations. The contents stored in a

given memory cell is the value of the variable serving as a name of this location. Example: Let x be a variable, and 5 be the contents of the memory cell called x.

Then, the value of x is 5.

Numbers

• Integers: 179, 45• Ratio: 5/7, 7/9• Floating point: 5.2, 7.9• Examples:

* (/ 25 5)5* (/ 46 9)46/9 ; do not divide evenly* (float (/ 46 9))5.111111* (round (/ 46 9))5 ; the nearest integer1/9 ; the remainder

More numeric primitives

* (- 6)-6* (- -6)6* (max 5 7 2)7* (min 5 7 2)2* (sqrt (* (+ 1 3) (* 2 2)))4.0* (+ (round (/ 22 7)) (round (/ 7 3)))5

* (+ 2 2.5)4.5* (expt 3 6)729* (sqrt 81)9.0* (sqrt 82)9.055386 * (abs 6)6* (abs -6)6

Problems:

1. Write a function (power 3 2) = 3^2 = 92. Write a function that counts the number of atoms in an

expression. (count-atoms '(a (b) c)) --> 33. (count-anywhere 'a '(a ((a) b) a)) --> 34. (dot-product '(10 20) '(3 4)) --> 10x3 + 20x4 = 1105. Write a function (flatten '(a (b) () ((c)))) --> (a b c) which removes all levels of parenthesis and returns a flat list

of atoms.6. Write a function (remove-dups '(a 1 1 a b 2 b)) --> (a 1 b 2) which removes all duplicate atoms from a flat list. (Note: there is a built-in remove-duplicates in Common Lisp,

do not use it).

Solutions 1-3

(defun power (a b)"compute a^b - (power 3 2) ==> 9" (if (= b 0) 1 (* a (power a (- b 1)))))

(defun count-atoms (exp)"count atoms in expresion - (count-atoms '(a (b) c)) ==> 3" (cond ((null exp) 0)

((atom exp) 1) (t (+ (count-atoms (first exp)) (count-atoms (rest exp))))))

(defun count-anywhere (a exp)"count performances of a in expresion - (count-anywhere 'a '(a ((a) b) (a))) ==> 3" (cond ((null exp) 0)

((atom exp) (if (eq a exp) 1 0)) (t (+ (count-anywhere a (first exp)) (count-anywhere a (rest exp))))))

Solutions

(defun flatten (exp)"removes all levels of paranthesis and returns flat list of atomsi (flatten '(a (b) () ((c)))) ==> (a b c)" (cond ((null exp) nil)

((atom exp) (list exp)) (t (append (flatten (first exp))

(flatten (rest exp))))))

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