[Gcl-devel] Re: Some extensions for gcl

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Raymond Toy <address@hidden> writes:

> >>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Camm> Greetings!
>     Camm> Raymond Toy <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     >> Camm,
>     >> 
>     >> I mentioned a while back that I had ported some more code to gcl.  I
>     >> found my ports of Mark K.'s logical pathname stuff and his Rich
>     >> Water's xp pretty printer stuff.  I see there are some .o files in my
>     >> directories so I'm pretty sure they once wored with gcl.  However,
>     >> with my Solaris gcl 2.4.0, I can successfully compile them but loading
>     >> the .o files causes gcl to crash.
>     >> 
>     >> Do you want them?  I got these from the CMU AI Archives and I think
>     >> the changes were quite minor.
>     >> 
> 
>     Camm> Yes, please send along anything you've found useful yourself.  I'm 
> not
> 
> Do you want me to send them directly to you?
> 

Yes, please!

>     Camm> quite clear yet what should actually go in the *distribution*, but 
> it
>     Camm> would be nice to have the option.  Am cc'ing this to the devel list 
> to
>     Camm> get comments on what we should actually compile into gcl by way of
>     Camm> extensions. 
> 
> Considering that logical pathnames and pretty-printing are required
> parts of ANSI CL, this will get you at least part of the way there.
> Don't know how close it is to ANSI CL, though.  However, you might
> want to do this yourself.  I know Clisp has its own implementation of
> pretty-printing, written from scratch a couple of months ago.
> 

That's enough for me -- will try to integrate.  

As for our implementing our own from scratch, if we do this, it will
have to come from someone else on the team more familiar with lisp, at
least in the near term.  It doesn't appear hard, but I can't justify
the time right now to really dig in and learn lisp.  And the compiler
appears quite efficient, so a hand c implementation also doesn't seem
a wise allocation of time.

If anyone on this list wants to take a crack at implementing some of
these features for gcl in lisp, please feel welcome!

Take care,

> Ray
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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