;;; Copyright 2013 Google Inc. ;;; ;;; Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); ;;; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. ;;; You may obtain a copy of the License at ;;; ;;; http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ;;; ;;; Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software ;;; distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, ;;; WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. ;;; See the License for the specific language governing permissions and ;;; limitations under the License. ;;; In most imperative languages, the syntax of a function call has the function ;;; name succeeded by a list of arguments. In Lisp, the function name and ;;; arguments are all part of the same list, with the function name the first ;;; element of that list. (define-test function-names ;; In these examples, +, -, *, and / are function names. (assert-equal 5 (+ 2 3)) (assert-equal -2 (- 1 3)) (assert-equal 28 (* 7 4)) (assert-equal 25 (/ 100 4))) (define-test numberp ;; NUMBERP is a predicate which returns true if its argument is a number. (assert-equal t (numberp 5)) (assert-equal t (numberp 2.0)) (assert-equal nil (numberp "five"))) (define-test evaluation-order ;; Arguments to a function are evaluated before the function is called. (assert-equal 9 (* (+ 1 2) (- 13 10)))) (define-test basic-comparisons ;; The below functions are boolean functions (predicates) that operate on ;; numbers. (assert-equal t (> 25 4)) (assert-equal nil (< 8 2)) (assert-equal t (= 3 3)) (assert-equal t (<= 6 (/ 12 2))) (assert-equal t (>= 20 (+ 1 2 3 4 5))) (assert-equal t (/= 15 (+ 4 10)))) (define-test quote ;; Preceding a list with a quote (') will tell Lisp not to evaluate a list. ;; The quote special form suppresses normal evaluation, and instead returns ;; the literal list. ;; Evaluating the form (+ 1 2) returns the number 3, but evaluating the form ;; '(+ 1 2) returns the list (+ 1 2). (assert-equal 3 (+ 1 2)) (assert-equal '(+ 1 2) '(+ 1 2)) (assert-equal '(+ 1 2) (list '+ 1 2)) ;; The 'X syntax is syntactic sugar for (QUOTE X). (true-or-false? t (equal '(/ 4 0) (quote (/ 4 0))))) (define-test listp ;; LISTP is a predicate which returns true if the argument is a list. (assert-equal t (listp '(1 2 3))) (assert-equal nil (listp 100)) (assert-equal nil (listp "Hello world")) (assert-equal t (listp nil)) (assert-equal nil (listp (+ 1 2))) (assert-equal t (listp '(+ 1 2))))