I'm all for picking the CDR again -- but I probably don't have the cycles to hack on the SBCL implementation very much.
The conceptual origin of SBCL/ABCL -style package local nicknames is Lisp Machine. I mostly tried to bring the ideas there in line with modern sensibilities and address things like read/write consistency.
If you want to look at all the things it would be cool to support (conceptually), the Scheme module system pretty much does it all -- but obviously details and implementations would be quite different for CL.
Nice to see people thinking about this stuff. :)
Cheers,
-- nikodemus
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Rudi Schlatte rudi@constantly.at wrote:
On Nov 27, 2015, at 15:46, Marco Antoniotti marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu wrote:
On Nov 27, 2015, at 15:42 , Pascal J. Bourguignon <
pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
Alessio Stalla alessiostalla@gmail.com writes:
Hello list,
long time no see :)
I'm once again experimenting on ABCL with a sort of a pet peeve of mine: hierarchical symbols (aka symbols as packages aka symbol/ package conflation). If I get good results I'll submit an article to the next ELS. Btw, is anyone going?
I've seen that, since the time when I was actively contributing to it, ABCL has gained package-local nicknames (or, they were already there and I never noticed or I forgot about them). Since my experiment is, I suppose, a superset of what said nicknames have to offer, I'm curious: is anybody using them? How? Are they a novel idea of ABCL's, or were they inspired by other implementations? Do they implement some specification (e.g., a CDR)?
I implemented recently allegro's hierarchical package in conforming CL cf.
https://gitlab.com/com-informatimago/com-informatimago/blob/master/common-li...
and this week, phoe_krk implemented his own version of package local pseudonyms (like package nicknames, but separate): https://github.com/phoe-krk/pseudonyms
Perhaps it'd really be time to write a CDR and implement something good and common on all implementations?
I am game. How do you guys want to proceed?
Ages ago, Nikodemus and me started writing a cdr, but somehow got stuck along the way. I attach what we came up with, this could be a good starting point.
(Hi from another lisper-in-exile :) )
Rudi