February 2012 - alexandria-devel - mailman3.common-lisp.net

[alexandria-devel] Question about FORMAT-SYMBOL
by Luís Oliveira 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

Hello, I often try to support Allegro's modern mode by doing things like (format-symbol t "~A-~A" :foo :bar). We just came across an issue on #quicklisp where a user had set his *PRINT-CASE* to :DOWNCASE and that caused FORMAT-SYMBOL to intern lower-case symbols, thus breaking the idiom I described. Should fix my code to use SYMBOLICATE instead or should FORMAT-SYMBOL use WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX? Any opinions? -- Luís Oliveira http://r42.eu/~luis

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[alexandria-devel] reverting patch
by Tamas Papp 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Hi, I have been trying to reach Nikodemus Siivola for a while but didn't get a response, so I thought I would write here hoping that someone can help me. Nikodemus admitted my "generic MEAN and MEDIAN, new function DISPLACE-ARRAY" patch to Alexandria 11 days ago. This was meant to be an initial patch, followed by others, with the final goal of making mean, median and variance generic. The first patch dealt with MEAN and MEDIAN. I would like to ask that this patch is removed from Alexandria for the time being, for the following two reasons: 1. The generic variance I wrote would not support the :BIASED keyword, in fact, only "unbiased" variance makes sense in certain situations. Since :BIASED T is the default, this would break existing code in a silent manner, which is not desirable. 2. The new function DISPLACE-ARRAY is badly designed: the keyword defaults handle what turns out to be a rarely used corner case for me. I would rather keep the old functionality, already present in CL-NUM-UTILS. I am sorry for the confusion. I think it is best if I experiment within my own libraries for a while before re-addressing these issues. I wonder if someone could revert the patch, preferably soon, so that the next release of Quicklisp would contain Alexandria without my code. Best, Tamas

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Re: [alexandria-devel] 9 new unexpected test failures on CLISP
by Anton Vodonosov 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Good it's fixed 14.02.2012, 08:41, "James M. Lawrence" <llmjjmll(a)gmail.com>: > I am unable to post to alexandria-devel due to spam rejections. (Even > my message to the admin was rejected.) So FYI here's what I tried to > send -- > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: James M. Lawrence <llmjjmll(a)gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:48 PM > Subject: Re: [alexandria-devel] 9 new unexpected test failures on CLISP > To: alexandria-devel(a)common-lisp.net > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov(a)yandex.ru> wrote: > >> We will see. Opened a CLISP ticket: >> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3487338&group_id=1355&atid… > > It's now fixed: > http://clisp.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/clisp/clisp/rev/5bcad87b2d40 > > I ran alexandria-tests with a patched clisp -- no unexpected failures.

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[alexandria-devel] 9 new unexpected test failures on CLISP
by Anton Vodonosov 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hello. The alexandria version in the recent quicklisp has 9 unexpected failures on CLISP: ALEXANDRIA-TESTS::MEAN.1, ALEXANDRIA-TESTS::MEAN.2, ALEXANDRIA-TESTS::MEAN.3, ALEXANDRIA-TESTS::MEAN.4, ALEXANDRIA-TESTS::MEDIAN.1, ALEXANDRIA-TESTS::MEDIAN.2, ALEXANDRIA-TESTS::MEDIAN.3, ALEXANDRIA-TESTS::VARIANCE.1, ALEXANDRIA-TESTS::STANDARD-DEVIATION.1. The library test log: https://cl-test-grid.appspot.com/blob?key=AMIfv960NH7TxHvJO5_RSARVN0mmN_31J…

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