[CM] looking for documentation for beginner

[Rick Taube]

CM runs in scheme (Guile) and Common Lisp. When you build CM in Common 
Lisp it defines  common scheme operators so that you can write musical 
programs that will run in any port of CM, regardless of what Lisp 
implementation you happen to be using that day. Of course, I could have 
defined Common Lisp operators in scheme but I chose the reverse becuase 
(in my opinion...) Scheme's names are more consistent and easier to 
learn and teach.

New is documented here:

http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/doc/dict/index.html

it does appear that :of is missing from the dictionary and Ill fix that 
in the next release , sorry!
  :of is a keyword argument for patterns, its the argument that 
introduces the data to put in the pattern:

(new cycle :of '(a b c d e))
(new heap :of '(a b c d e))

> Hi, I'm new to CM.  For documentation, I've found the Common Music
> Dictionary, and a couple online references to Common Lisp.  I'm still
> confused on a lot of points.  The example CM code uses "define", 
> "new", and
> passes a lot of arguments via :of.  None of these are explained in 
> either
> the Common Music Dictionary or the Common Lisp sources. They seem to be
> idioms specific to CM, but where are they documented?
>
> Second question: does CLM work under the combination CLISP/Win XP?
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>
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