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by luskwater
Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:18 am
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: closures
Replies: 6
Views: 17569

Re: closures

Well, I just recently saw this somewhere....ah, the config.lisp file for SBCL, or CLISP, or CMUCL...not sure which at the moment. (let ((cache nil)) (defun long-site-name () (if cache cache (setq cache (some-lengthy-calculation-with-IO-from-shell))))) so there's an idiom for regular use of closures ...
by luskwater
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:59 am
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: CLOS usage
Replies: 22
Views: 55384

Re: CLOS usage

I was originally going to vote for "When it makes sense" (or even a step down), until I realized that I frequently have a print-object method defined for my structs or conditions or whatever, and use conditions, and use defmethod on structs, etc. CL-SQL uses it, and I use that as well.
by luskwater
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:07 am
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: What are you doing in Common Lisp lately?
Replies: 26
Views: 64294

Re: What are you doing in Common Lisp lately?

I'm writing a card-scanner configuration tool for my company. We have about 20 retirement communities, and are using three different types of proximity ID cards. Each type has its own scanner model, and requires its own custom (non-factory) configuration. One of the sweet things about Lisp (some par...