Gary King <gwking@metabang.com> writes:
As an open ended question: how does this CDR relate to Marco Antoniotti's CL-Enumerations and my CL-Containers?
I don't think this CDR relates at all to cl-enumerations or cl-containers.
From an implementation point of view, it sounds like you would need to make the various CL functions into generic functions and/or write a lot of code that dispatches on type within the CL functions.
CDR 3 does not discuss anything like this; in some sense I'm sorry that I have muddied the waters in my answer to Pascal. Just to reiterate: CDR 3 addresses what I believe to be a specification bug that I discovered in the course of performing related work. That said, yes, I have performed some related work which makes various operations generic, both in the pre-CLOS sense and in the generic function sense; I don't think it's a lot of code, and I don't believe that there are other negative implications. This work will not be incompatible, as far as I can tell, with either cl-enumerations or cl-containers; I feel I can say that because this work should not be incompatible with any existing code. (Without a more directed question, I'm not sure that I can give you a clearer answer. If you do have a question, it might help to know that documentation of the form "this is like X in Java", or, worse, "this is a list of the symbols in this package", is not enough context to give me confidence in my answers). Cheers, Christophe