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pjstirling wrote:I use ASDF:SYSTEM-RELATIVE-PATHNAME (usually with a per-package wrapper) to directly create PATHNAMES when I need to do this.

I hadn't spotted that function earlier. That's much cleaner. Thank you!

Good morning! As in my last thread, I'm working on a small game using cl-sdl2. At this point I've got a playable demo and I'm working out a few kinks. The biggest is loading images. I have a small routine that loads sprites from *.png files, and memoizes the resultant textures. (defvar *sprites* nil...

This should be okay, except you might want to pass the environment to find-class (from the &environment parameter of the macro). Somehow I had entirely missed that &environment exists - learned something new about macro expansion here. Just pulled up the hyperspec to get details, that seems pretty ...

I'm working on a small game, and I found a situation where with-slots seems cumbersome. Specifically, I'm writing a method that calculates whether a game object's bounding rectangle will collide before it actually does collide. Actually checking a collision isn't hard conceptually, it just has a lar...

Hello! I just joined, and this board seems like the appropriate locale for meeting some friendly faces. (Or, in other words, I don't actually have a question yet, I just didn't want to be a lurker forever. :) ) Professionally, I spend most of my time in T-SQL and (ugh) Powershell. I've finally collu...