--- Robert Strandh strandh@labri.fr wrote:
C Y writes:
Perhaps you could consider your work on McCLIM to be the necessary preliminary work for Climacs/Gsharp? ;-)
Nice try :-)
It was worth a shot :-P
Yes, I think so. I mean, McCLIM is quite stable (in the sense that it is not crashing) and usable. The main problem for Gsharp is that I have had to write more code than I would have wanted to get around current problems with McCLIM. Of course, at some point, it becomes more advantageous to fix McCLIM than to write workarounds.
Ah, OK.
There are of course many ways of integrating the code and the spec. There are places in the current code with references to the spec, but I am guessing you want to go further than that. I am not sure I see how such integration would have a major impact on the maintainability of the code, though.
Well, it's more a case of convenience, but the psychology is good too - when you write a piece of code the text describing the purpose of the code is right there for reference/documentation, and if you need to update the spec due to code enhancements it's again right there. It's the whole "literate programming" thing. I know actions speak louder than words on such things though :-/.
Cheers, CY
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