On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:21 PM, John Pallister john@synchromesh.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Alessio Stalla alessiostalla@gmail.com wrote:
Thoughts?
Sounds pretty good to me, FWIW. Have you frequently found yourself wanting such a thing, or did you just notice the gap in the coverage of the API?
Not frequently. I'm writing a library which in a certain use case needs a factory of Java objects passed by the user (in this case, a Java programmer, not a Lisp programmer). I thought that I could design my own interface to model the factory, but then I thought that I could just pass a Lisp function, and then the idea of a more Java-friendly general callback class (since as I said extending Function involves a bit of boilerplate). At this point the thing is clearly more general than my particular use case, and since Java integration is abcl's main strength, I just thought it could be a nice addition to it.
Bye, Alessio