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2010-07 snapshot tagged
by Raymond Toy 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Yet another snapshot has been tagged. Binaries will be uploaded soon. As mentioned previously, a cross-compile is needed for this snapshot. You can use 20a/boot-2010-06-cross-x86.lisp to do the cross-compile on x86. For others, just use the standard script in tools/cross-scripts. This snapshot fixes an annoying bug in sse2 where trace returned incorrect values for floating-point arguments. This also adds two new slots to an fd-stream that will be used later to allow handling of encoding/decoding errors for external formats. Ray

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Upcoming changes
by Raymond Toy 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Just wanted to make a note that for the next snapshot a basic cross-compile is needed. For x86, the cross-compile fixes a bug in tracing/debug:arg for sse2 builds. Any floating-point values were basically random. In addition, two new slots are being added to fd-streams. The two new slots are not yet used but will be used to control how errors are handled in stream I/O. This also uses a cross-compile. When the cross-compile complains about incompatible structures, just select the CLOBBER-IT restart each time cmucl complains. Ray

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Bugs in merging with *default-pathname-defaults*
by Raymond Toy 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Zach Beane has pointed out to me that cmucl doesn't merge the pathname with *default-pathname-defaults* as required in CLHS 19.2.3. In particular, OPEN, ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST, FILE-AUTHOR, and DELETE-FILE don't merge. This is now fixed in cvs. I'm too lazy to make a patch for 20a for this (if you really want one, speak up!) so I offer the following fix for this issue. (/fwrappers:define-fwrapper/ force-merge-pathname (filename &rest options) (setf <http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/a_setf.htm> filename (merge-pathnames <http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/f_merge_.htm> filename)) (fwrappers::call-next-function)) (fwrappers:fwrap 'open <http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/f_open.htm> #'force-merge-pathname) (fwrappers:fwrap 'ensure-directories-exist <http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/f_ensu_1.htm> #'force-merge-pathname) (fwrappers:fwrap 'file-author #'force-merge-pathname) (fwrappers:fwrap 'delete-file #'force-merge-pathname) (This is pretty neat. I've never used fwrappers before, even though they've been there for years now.) Ray

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ILC 2010
by Antonio Menezes Leitao 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

With the usual apologies to those who receive multiple copies of this... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ International Lisp Conference 2010 October 19-21, 2010 John Ascuaga's Nugget (Casino) Reno/Sparks, Nevada, USA (near Lake Tahoe) Collocated with SPLASH 2010 (OOPSLA & DLS & more) see also http://splashcon.org as well as http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-10/ In association with ACM SIGPLAN (PENDING) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce that the 2010 International Lisp Conference will be held in Reno, Nevada, in collocation with SPLASH 2010. The scope includes all areas related to the Lisp family of programming languages. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library (PENDING). Extended Abstracts and Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=ilc2010 in PDF or WORD format. If an Extended Abstract is submitted, it must be between 2 and 4 pages, with full paper to follow before final deadline. Final submissions must not exceed 15 pages and need to use the ACM format, for which templates which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Important Dates: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Deadline for Abstract Submission: August 1, 2010 * Deadline for Paper Submission: September 6, 2010 * Author notification: September 20, 2010 * Final paper due (in electronic form): October 5, 2010 * Conference: October 19-21, 2010 Scope: ~~~~~~ Lisp is one of the greatest ideas from computer science and a major influence for almost all programming languages and for all sufficiently complex software applications. The International Lisp Conference is a forum for the discussion of Lisp and, in particular, the design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. We invite high quality submissions in all areas involving Lisp dialects and any other languages in the Lisp family, including, but not limited to, ACL2, AutoLisp, Clojure, Common Lisp, ECMAScript, Dylan, Emacs Lisp, ISLISP, Racket, Scheme, etc. Topics may include any and all combinations of Lisp and: * Language design and implementation * Language critique * Language integration, inter-operation and deployment * Applications (especially commercial) * 'Pearls' (of wisdom) * Experience reports and case studies * Reflection, meta-object protocols, meta-programming * Domain-specific languages * Programming paradigms and environments * Parallel and distributed computing * Software evolution * Theorem proving * Scientific computing * Data mining * Semantic web We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic may communicate by electronic mail with the program chair prior to submission. Each paper should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. Authors should strive to make their papers understandable to a broad audience. Each paper will be judged according to its significance, novelty, correctness, clarity, and elegance. The official language of the conference is English. Some further information is available at the conference web site, with more details added later. See: http://www.international-lisp-conference.org Technical Program: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Original submissions in all areas related to the conference themes are invited for the following categories. * Papers: Technical papers of up to 15 pages that describe original results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways, or extended abstracts of 4 pages soon followed by the corresponding full paper. * Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for demonstrations of tools, libraries, and applications. * Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to 180 minutes. * Workshops: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for groups of people who intend to work on a focused topic for half a day. * Panel discussions: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for discussions about current themes. Panel discussion proposals must mention panel members who are willing to partake in a discussion. * Lightning talks: Abstracts of up to one page for talks to last for no more than 5 minutes. Depending on the technical content, each submitted paper will be classified by the program committee as either a technical paper or as an experience paper; and authors will be informed about this classification. Note that all interesting submissions are considered valuable contributions to the success of the ILC series of conferences. As in past ILC's since 2007, accepted papers in both categories will be presented at the conference, included in the proceedings, and submitted to the ACM digital library. Organizing Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * General Chair: JonL White - The Ginger IceCream Factory of Palo Alto, ALU * Program Chair: Antonio Leitao - Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID * Conference Treasurer: Duane Rettig - Franz, Inc., ALU Director * Publicity Chair: Daniel Herring - ALU Director * ALU Treasurer: Rusty Johnson - TASC, Inc., ALU Director Program Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Antonio Leitao - Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID, Portugal * Alex Fukunaga - University of Tokyo, Japan * Charlotte Herzeel - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Christophe Rhodes - Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK * Didier Verna - EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France * Duane Rettig - Franz, Inc., USA * Giuseppe Attardi - University of Pisa, Italy * Jeff Shrager - Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University, USA * Joe Marshall - Google, Inc., USA * Julian Padget - University of Bath, UK * Keith Corbett - Clozure Associates, USA * Kent Pitman - PTC, USA * Manuel Serrano - INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France * Marc Feeley - University of Montreal, Canada * Marie Beurton-Aimar University of Bordeaux 1, France * Mark Stickel - SRI International, USA * Matthias Felleisen - Northeastern University, USA * Scott McKay - ITA Software, USA Contacts: ~~~~~~~~~ * Questions: ilc10-organizing-committee at alu.org * Program Chair: ilc2010 at easychair.org For more information, see http://www.international-lisp-conference.org

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