Thanks! It's especially great for me to see someone working on jnew-runtime-class :) I hope your patches get incorporated. My plans for runtime-class were, besides supporting constructors and polishing the whole thing, to provide a macro on top of it (say, define-java-class) that would generate the class at macroexpansion time and somehow hook with the compiler to include the class in compilation output somewhere. The ultimate goal being generating a jar with classes implemented in Lisp accessible to Java and other JVM languages. That would be really cool, although I never properly evaluated the feasibility.
Keep up the good work! Cheers Alessio
On 9 August 2016 at 21:46, Olof-Joachim Frahm olof@macrolet.net wrote:
Hi list,
attached are some patches (from [1]) that have been sitting around for a while; one is more of a work in progress, but it would still be great to know if it's at least going in the right direction.
- 0001 Fixes an annoying issue I had where imported nested classes (with the dollar sign in their name) weren't found via JSS.
- 0002 Adds the `external-only` option as seen in SBCL to `apropos`, because it's convenient.
- 0005 Adds support for setting the `file-position` on `string-output-stream`s. Might be somewhat obscure, but I stumbled upon it in some situation.
The next one could use some comments as well, but I consider it pretty well working:
- 0003 Adds a hook and simple machinery to support multiple internal disassembler backends. At the moment I've added the ObjectWeb ASM one and kept the existing JAD call. Should this somehow add an ASDF system to support loading of those libraries via Maven? At the moment a user has to have the matching JARs in their classpath for it to work.
Now the one that is not nearly done is 0004 which attempts to fix some of the issues with `jnew-runtime-class`, in particular working custom constructors. Now I've noticed that that's a *big* topic, so this is just a starting point. I'm deliberating ways of supporting a direct `super` call too, that includes fixing the supermethod calls that are still in the code.
Let me know what you think, best regards, Olof