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The above strategy makes sense to me and seems quite robust. That's basically what I'm after. Thanks for all the responses!

In the past, I've just output to a text file in GNU plot format and refreshed the plot when I wanted to see an update. There's also http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/cl-plplot (never used it). If you need something more interactive or beyond text and plots, you can also check into the lisp SDL binding...

Another facility are the functions 'describe', 'describe-object' and 'inspect'. You could parse their output to get the code for a function in list form. Performance concerns aside, these functions are implementation dependent and therefore not portable; so you probably wouldn't want to use them for...

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...

So, I'm still not sure what you are after, exactly: Documentation API enforcement Performance optimization API enforcement is what I'm after in this case. So I still don't see the benefit. In a C++/COM world, type mismatches cause big problems because operations are not type-checked. In Lisp, you c...

Hi, have you looked at Qi ? It has a static typing system (and has some nice features like pattern matching). A bit. Qi was mentioned in another thread. Having just got my head around Lisp fundamentals, I'm a bit reluctant to stack another language on top but it may very well be the way to go. Than...

I guess it's worth noting that the reason I use SBCL is that as for a relative newcomer to Lisp it is more accessible than many other implementations. I think many folks like a nice syntax highlighted IDE to work in. It didn't take me long to find the Eclipse/CUSP combination and CUSP uses SBCL by d...

Maybe I'm not following you, but why do you care about typing? From your original posting, it sounds like you just need it for documentation purposes, to communicate with users of your API. If that's true, then I'd suggest that you just use well-written doc strings and be done with it. It is true t...

Hi all, In general, I'm comfortable with the dynamic typing of CL 'except' in a case where I want to lock down interfaces to a package. That is, beyond exporting only the functions I want exported from the package, I want to specify the types of their arguments in the most precise way possible to ma...

Paul Donnelly wrote:There's Qi, and several Prologs.

http://www.lambdassociates.org/
http://norvig.com/paip/prolog.lisp

Wow, Qi looks really cool in particular. This should give me quite a bit to chew on. Thanks!