Some tips from jean françois

To find more about a function, in the REPL:

(describe 'length) (describe 'prin1)

The namespacing issue we discussed: it seems it has been solved already with "packages", using (defpackage ...), (use-package ...), (import ...), (in-package ...). See http://www.bookshelf.jp/texi/onlisp/onlisp_27.html for more information on this (sorry for your eyes... the site looks ugly, but I could not find anything better!)

Also, http://www.clojure.org/ is the new (and very hip) Lisp you might be interested in. It compiles to JVM bytecode and has Java interop baked in. There is a fairly good Eclipse plugin available at http://code.google.com/p/counterclockwise/ .

Regards, J-F