On 7/23/13 11:34 PM, Sean Champ wrote: […]
Personally and primarily, I've been interested in the possibility of developing an ABCL interface onto Apache Jena, and possibly an interface onto some JARs distributed by the GeoTools project - would like to develop a process of transforming an ESRI Shapefile into an OWL ontology, and it seemed that ABCL would be a good Common Lisp implementation to use for such a purpose.
See [jeannie][] for an initial wrapping of Jena with ABCL. It doesn't do much more than read RDF from a PATHNAME, but adding the rest is a matter of rolling up the proverbial sleeves. [jeannie]: http://bitbucket.org/easye/jeannie […]
In looking at that idea, I'd been interested about how the CLOS support is implemented in ABCL, and whether and how MOP might be implemented, there.
As much of CLOS/MOP as possible has been implemented in Lisp: see clos.lisp. CLOS is mostly historical, evolving in fits and starts over the lifetime of ABCL. The MOP has been added mostly of the last year by Rudi Schlatte. Following his commits chronologically would give somewhat of an impression of how it is implemented. […]
(On a personal note: Between moving and returning to college, it's been a busy summer, frankly, but there are some bluesky ideas that one can focus on, I suppose)
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