这是一个稍微高级的示例，显示了普通lisp的其他一些功能。我们从一个简单的Hello, World!功能开始，并在REPL上演示一些交互式开发。请注意，从分号;到行的其余部分的所有文本均为注释。
CL-USER> (defun hello ()
(format t "Hello, World!~%")) ;We start as before
HELLO
CL-USER> (hello)
Hello, World!
NIL
CL-USER> (defun hello-name (name) ;A function to say hello to anyone
(format t "Hello, ~a~%" name)) ;~a prints the next argument to format
HELLO-NAME
CL-USER> (hello-name "Jack")
Hello, Jack
NIL
CL-USER> (hello-name "jack") ;doesn't capitalise names
Hello, jack
NIL
CL-USER> (defun hello-name (name) ;format has a feature to convert to title case
(format t "Hello, ~:(~a~)~%" name)) ;anything between ~:( and ~) gets it
WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::HELLO-NAME in DEFUN
HELLO-NAME
CL-USER> (hello-name "jack")
Hello, Jack
NIL
CL-USER> (defun hello-name (name)
(format t "Hello, ~:(~a~)!~%" name))
WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::HELLO-NAME in DEFUN
HELLO-NAME
CL-USER> (hello-name "jack") ;now this works
Hello, Jack!
NIL
CL-USER> (defun hello (&optional (name "world")) ;we can take an optional argument
(hello-name name)) ;name defaults to "world"
WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::HELLO in DEFUN
HELLO
CL-USER> (hello)
Hello, World!
NIL
CL-USER> (hello "jack")
Hello, Jack!
NIL
CL-USER> (hello "john doe") ;note that this capitalises both names
Hello, John Doe!
NIL
CL-USER> (defun hello-person (name &key (number))
(format t "Hello, ~a ~r" name number)) ;~r prints a number in English
HELLO-PERSON
CL-USER> (hello-person "Louis" :number 16) ;this doesn't quite work
Hello, Louis sixteen
NIL
CL-USER> (defun hello-person (name &key (number))
(format t "Hello, ~:(~a ~:r~)!" name number)) ;~:r prints an ordinal
WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::HELLO-PERSON in DEFUN
HELLO-PERSON
CL-USER> (hello-person "Louis" :number 16)
Hello, Louis Sixteenth!
NIL
CL-USER> (defun hello-person (name &key (number))
(format t "Hello, ~:(~a ~@r~)!" name number)) ;~@r prints Roman numerals
WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::HELLO-PERSON in DEFUN
HELLO-PERSON
CL-USER> (hello-person "Louis" :number 16)
Hello, Louis Xvi!
NIL
CL-USER> (defun hello-person (name &key (number)) ;capitalisation was wrong
(format t "Hello, ~:(~a~) ~:@r!" name number))
WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::HELLO-PERSON in DEFUN
HELLO-PERSON
CL-USER> (hello-person "Louis" :number 16) ;thats better
Hello, Louis XVI!
NIL
CL-USER> (hello-person "Louis") ;we get an error because NIL is not a number
Hello, Louis ; Evaluation aborted on #<SB-FORMAT:FORMAT-ERROR {1006641AB3}>.
CL-USER> (defun say-person (name &key (number 1 number-p)
(title nil) (roman-number t))
(let ((number (if number-p
(typecase number
(integer
(format nil (if roman-number " ~:@r" " ~:(~:r~)") number))
(otherwise
(format nil " ~:(~a~)" number)))
"")) ; here we define a variable called number
(title (if title
(format nil "~:(~a~) " title)
""))) ; and here one called title
(format nil "~a~:(~a~)~a" title name number))) ;we use them here
SAY-PERSON
CL-USER> (say-person "John") ;some examples
"John"
CL-USER> (say-person "john doe")
"John Doe"
CL-USER> (say-person "john doe" :number "JR")
"John Doe Jr"
CL-USER> (say-person "john doe" :number "Junior")
"John Doe Junior"
CL-USER> (say-person "john doe" :number 1)
"John Doe I"
CL-USER> (say-person "john doe" :number 1 :roman-number nil) ;this is wrong
"John Doe First"
CL-USER> (defun say-person (name &key (number 1 number-p)
(title nil) (roman-number t))
(let ((number (if number-p
(typecase number
(integer
(format nil (if roman-number " ~:@r" " the ~:(~:r~)") number))
(otherwise
(format nil " ~:(~a~)" number)))
""))
(title (if title
(format nil "~:(~a~) " title)
"")))
(format nil "~a~:(~a~)~a" title name number)))
WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::SAY-PERSON in DEFUN
SAY-PERSON
CL-USER> (say-person "john doe" :number 1 :roman-number nil) ;thats better
"John Doe the First"
CL-USER> (say-person "louis" :title "king" :number 16 :roman-number nil)
"King Louis the Sixteenth"
CL-USER> (say-person "louis" :title "king" :number 16 :roman-number t)
"King Louis XVI"
CL-USER> (defun hello (&optional (name "World") &rest arguments) ;now we will just
(apply #'hello-name name arguments)) ;pass all arguments to hello-name
WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::HELLO in DEFUN
HELLO
CL-USER> (defun hello-name (name &rest arguments) ;which will now just use
(format t "Hello, ~a!" (apply #'say-person name arguments))) ;say-person
WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::HELLO-NAME in DEFUN
HELLO-NAME
CL-USER> (hello "louis" :title "king" :number 16) ;this works now
Hello, King Louis XVI!
NIL
CL-USER>这突出显示了Common Lispformat函数的一些高级功能，以及一些可选参数和关键字参数（例如:number）之类的功能。这也提供了一个常见的REPL交互式开发示例。