[mcclim-devel] Patch: Rename key name symbols for support of lower case mode CL variants.
* Rename key name symbols for support of lower case mode CL variants.
Douglas Crosher dtc@scieneer.com writes:
- Rename key name symbols for support of lower case mode CL variants.
Instead of these huge diffs, would it be possible instead to bind a variable (did I see ext:*case-mode*?) so that SCL is in ANSI mode while compiling and loading McCLIM? (Probably this ought to be done for plain old vanilla ANSI-conforming treatment of reader case, too, as I suspect that McCLIM wouldn't build if the lisp has an exotic readtable-case such as :invert)
The disadvantage that I see in merging support for non-ANSI treatment of case is that it is terribly easy to break by writing regular ANSI-conforming Lisp; it doesn't feel robust to me. (I would also like to encourage people who work on cut-and-pasted copies of files to find some way of unifying the information in those files; CLX/keysymdefs.lisp and gtkairo/keysymdefs.lisp are identical apart from the package header.)
Cheers,
Christophe
Christophe Rhodes wrote:
Douglas Crosher dtc@scieneer.com writes:
- Rename key name symbols for support of lower case mode CL variants.
Instead of these huge diffs, would it be possible instead to bind a variable (did I see ext:*case-mode*?) so that SCL is in ANSI mode while compiling and loading McCLIM? (Probably this ought to be done for plain old vanilla ANSI-conforming treatment of reader case, too, as I suspect that McCLIM wouldn't build if the lisp has an exotic readtable-case such as :invert)
This is not really practical. While it is possible to compile in one mode and load in another, there are limits. Further many of the symbols affected are exported so the requirement would be contagious. I understand your position w.r.t the maintainability of the code.
Regards Douglas Crosher
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