April 2018 - armedbear-devel - mailman3.common-lisp.net

Causing an exception rather than calling the debugger
by Blake McBride 02 May '18

02 May '18

Hi, I embedded ABCL in an app some years ago. When an error occurred, ABCL threw an exception. It did what I want. Today I upgraded to the latest jar and I am experiencing a different behavior. When an error occurs ABCL enters a debug REP loop. Calling a REP loop on error is perfect for interactive use but not workable in an embedded situation. I'm hoping there is a simple way for me to change this behavior. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Blake McBride

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Re-entrant and multi-entrant ABCL calls
by Blake McBride 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Greetings, Does ABCL safely support re-entrant and multi-entrant calls? What I mean by that is the following: Re-entrant: on a single OS thread - my Java program calls into ABCL, then ABCL calls into my Java application, and then the Java application calls back into ABCL. So the stack has Java, ABCL, JAVA, and then ABCL again. Multi-entrant: my Java application has many threads. One of my threads calls into ABCL. Then, while one thread is still in ABCL, another thread evokes ABCL. So now we have two calls into ABCL by two independent Java/OS threads running at the same time. I understand the typical problems associated with application-level shared variables. This is expected. The question revolves around ABCL's internals. I presume ABCL would have some shared data that is internal to ABCL. That's what I am unclear about. ABCL would have had to be designed for these scenarios from the ground up. This is a little hard to test because if it can't always correctly handle these situations, it may not become clear until certain scenarios arrive. It may be hard for any "test" program I write to cause those scenarios, so I thought this may be a known answer. Thanks! Blake

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[Final CfPart] ELS 2018, April 16-17, Marbella, Spain
by Didier Verna 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

ELS'18 - 11th European Lisp Symposium Centro Cultural Cortijo de Miraflores Marbella, Málaga Spain April 16-17 2018 In cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN Sponsored by RavenPack, Brunner Software GmbH, Franz Inc., LispWorks Ltd., and EPITA http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/ Recent news: - ELS 2018 is in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN - Full program now available on the website - Still one week to register! The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. Keynote speakers: - Vsevolod Domkin -- Lisp in a Startup: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - R. Matthew Emerson -- This Old Lisp (a look at Clozure CL) Important dates: - 16-17 Apr 2018 Symposium Programme chair: David Cooper, Genworks Intl., USA Local chairs: Andrew Lawson, Ravenpack, Spain Programme committee: Andy Wingo, Igalia, Spain Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths University, UK Christopher Wellons Null Program USA Ernst van Waning, Infometrics.nl, Netherlands Irène Durand, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK Ludovic Courtès, Inria, France Michael Sperber, DeinProgramm, Germany Nicolas Neuss, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Olin Shivers Northeastern University USA Philipp Marek, Austria Robert Strandh, Université de Bordeaux, France Sacha Chua Living an Awesome Life Canada Scott McKay, Future Fuel, USA Search Keywords: #els2018, ELS 2018, ELS '18, European Lisp Symposium 2018, European Lisp Symposium '18, 10th ELS, 10th European Lisp Symposium, European Lisp Conference 2018, European Lisp Conference '18 -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info

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available encodings symbols strangeness; was: How to determine allowable external formats at run time
by Robert Dodier 02 Apr '18

02 Apr '18

Hi, I've made some progress, but ran into a problem. I see that SYSTEM:AVAILABLE-ENCODINGS returns a list of symbols which represent the various encodings that are discovered via Charset.availableCharsets. That's great, but the symbols are apparently not interned in the keyword package, so it makes it somewhat confusing to determine whether a given encoding is on the list. e.g. (member :utf-16 (system:available-encodings)) returns NIL, although looking at the list, you can see that :UTF-16 is there. Confusingly, (mapcar #'symbol-package (system:available-encodings)) shows that all symbols are in the keyword package, but (find-symbol "UTF-16" :keyword) returns NIL. I believe the problem is that availableEncodings in src/org/armedbear/lisp/Stream.java says, in part, (at line 399 in the current version) new Symbol(charset, PACKAGE_KEYWORD) but I think more appropriate would be PACKAGE_KEYWORD.intern(charset) or, at any rate, something to intern the charset symbol in the package, since the Symbol constructor doesn't have that effect. What does anyone think about that? I tried to sign in to Trac to enter a bug report about this but wasn't able. (1) "Login" wants a common-lisp.net user id -- I don't see a method to obtain a user id on the common-lisp.net website. (2) "OpenId login", clicked on Google, got: "Error in discovery: HTTP Response status from identity URL host is not 200. Got status 404". Hope this helps, and all the best. Robert Dodier

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