Re: [Gcl-devel] XP - ansi pprint

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks for the suggestion!

I've downloaded the code, and it would seem pretty straightforward to
include.

1) I compiled xp-code, loaded xp-tests and eval'ed do-tests.  I got
   one error with my local tree fixing some dotted list problems.
   I'd like to see your test output.

2) I cannot seem to compile xpx-code.lisp, as one of the format
   strings cannot be coerced to the designated destination type.

3) I'm a bit unclear on how the integration should take place.  What
   about the parameters in xp-install?  :pkg cl-user?  :macro?  I
   take it shadow should be the default 't.  So just '(load
   "xp-code.lisp")(xp::install ...)(save-system foo)', then run foo
   with '(load "xp-test.lisp")(do-tests)'?  Is xpx needed?  Can
   cp-code just be compiled and loaded without running the install?

Take are,

Peter Wood <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi
> 
> Would there be any interest in including XP in GCL?  It provides a
> number of ansi-required functions and facilities which GCL currently
> lacks: eg formatter, copy-pprint-dispatch etc.
> 
> The license is liberal (MIT style) and it was written by Richard
> Waters' whose pretty-printer proposals became part of the CL standard.
> 
> I am no pprint expert, and it was a desire to learn about CL's pretty
> printer which led me to try XP.  It compiles 'out of the box' on
> current CVS, and has a very user-friendly #'xp::install.  It includes
> a test-suite of over 600 tests, and GCL passes all but 5 (which did
> not look too serious to me, in my ignorance ;-).
> 
> I believe that both CMUCL and Clisp use XP (they did both at one time,
> certainly).
> 
> It's available at:
> 
> http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/code/io/xp/0.html
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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