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- Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:56 pm
- Forum: Common Lisp
- Topic: Quotes inside a string
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4791
Re: Quotes inside a string
Escape the double-quote character with a backslash. Good luck.
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:19 pm
- Forum: Common Lisp
- Topic: Please help my head get around 'deftype'
- Replies: 23
- Views: 42107
Re: Please help my head get around 'deftype'
You can always roll your own function signature tester. This is Lisp, after all. Ah, I was wondering if something like that was doable. Can you briefly describe how this would be accomplished? I assume this would involve getting the AST representation for the function from the symbol referencing th...
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:50 am
- Forum: Common Lisp
- Topic: Please help my head get around 'deftype'
- Replies: 23
- Views: 42107
Re: Please help my head get around 'deftype'
...emacshas over on million lines of Elisp, in one namespace... Proving that even dumb ideas are workable if you try hard enough. :lol: Seriously, while it is a quite amazing feat if you think about it, I'm not sure anybody would argue that it's the right way to build a large system. What happens i...
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:47 am
- Forum: Common Lisp
- Topic: Please help my head get around 'deftype'
- Replies: 23
- Views: 42107
Re: Please help my head get around 'deftype'
As I mentioned earlier, I don't believe it is a pervasive problem. I don't think explicit type checking needs to be littered throughout most code. I'm focusing on module level entry points...APIs if you like. Gotcha. That's not unreasonable in a few strategic locations. You can always roll your own...
- Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:05 am
- Forum: Common Lisp
- Topic: The Future of Lisp
- Replies: 25
- Views: 41239
Re: The Future of Lisp
Dan Weinreb has posted an interesting comment related to Lisp's future: The Failure of Lisp?
- Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:50 pm
- Forum: Common Lisp
- Topic: The Future of Lisp
- Replies: 25
- Views: 41239
Re: The Future of Lisp
high availability. In the future, you're going to see lots of application requirements that say things are going to have to work all day, every day, forever. Recall Erran Gat's description of debugging and upgrading the Remote Agent software running aboard the "Deep Space 1" spacecraft 10...