Thomas Burdick has been pushing the envelope on Cells lately, and it turns out to have been A Good Thing. I am not sure we can call this Cells III, but I hate those namby-pambies who go up by hundredths of a version, so what the heck. :) And as I fix up the stuff Thomas managed to break, turns out the code is getting even simpler and more efficient. Always nice.
I do not expect much response -- one really has to have thought about Cells internals -- but it cannot hurt to ask. The deal is this:
I am anxious to have any test code folks think will break Cells. Especially challenging is a def-c-output SETF of a c-input mediated Cell, or a dependent Cell that recalculates its KIDS slot, or a combination wherein the output setf triggers a kids recalc /and/ the new kids have cells with rules that look for each other by name and then use ruled slots of each other. <gasp>
Anyway, this is my problem, just thought I would see if there is someone out there who takes diabolical pleasure from breaking code. :)
Peace, ken
Kenny,
I'll give it a try in the context of cells-gtk. Perhaps not for a week or so though. Is this CVS HEAD on the common-lisp.net repository?
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 23:52, Kenny Tilton wrote:
Thomas Burdick has been pushing the envelope on Cells lately, and it turns out to have been A Good Thing. I am not sure we can call this Cells III, but I hate those namby-pambies who go up by hundredths of a version, so what the heck. :) And as I fix up the stuff Thomas managed to break, turns out the code is getting even simpler and more efficient. Always nice.
I do not expect much response -- one really has to have thought about Cells internals -- but it cannot hurt to ask. The deal is this:
I am anxious to have any test code folks think will break Cells. Especially challenging is a def-c-output SETF of a c-input mediated Cell, or a dependent Cell that recalculates its KIDS slot, or a combination wherein the output setf triggers a kids recalc /and/ the new kids have cells with rules that look for each other by name and then use ruled slots of each other. <gasp>
Anyway, this is my problem, just thought I would see if there is someone out there who takes diabolical pleasure from breaking code. :)
Peace, ken
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Peter Denno wrote:
Kenny,
I'll give it a try in the context of cells-gtk. Perhaps not for a week or so though. Is this CVS HEAD on the common-lisp.net repository?
Ah, no, but you make a good point. I was thinking folks like Thomas could just submit stuff that they think is nasty. But of course you will want to try it out and enhance it if it fails to break things. :)
If you want to wait, it should only be a few days... nahh, I am moving within the next five days, so add a two day delay for that. I might email you a distro rather than commit to CVS, unless I think it looks very solid.
Cells-GTk will be a good test. I have moved to Tk (atop LTk, but just using its core) to get Aqua on OS X, and i have discovered that Tk is a little sensitive to the order in which things get done. So I am extending DEF-C-OUTPUT to give the user the ability to queue up actions (such as talking to Tk) during any propagation and then at the end administer them with a user callback. For Tk I will just sort the actions to suit Tk.
GTk might not have the same problem, but if you have run into anything help is on the way.
Thx for pitching in.
kt
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