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Re: reading s-expressions from a file
by Jack Harper 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

Alexandre, be careful with Lisp control characters embedded - back quotes, commas etc. Jack Harper Secure Outcomes Inc Evergreen, Colorado USA At 10:27 AM 6/26/2019, LuÃs Oliveira wrote: >On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 5:19 PM Alexandre Rademaker ><arademaker(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > The âreadâ function makes really easy to > read a bunch of s-expressions from a file, but > how can I keep track of the line number where the expressions were in the file? > >One way to do it is to define a stream that keeps track of the current >line. Here's an example of such a stream: ><https://github.com/cl-stream/cl-stream/blob/master/line-tracking-stream.lisp>. > >-- >LuÃs Oliveira >http://kerno.org/~luis/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Harper, President Secure Outcomes Inc 2942 Evergreen Parkway, Suite 300 Evergreen, Colorado 80439 USA 303.670.8375 303.670.3750 (fax) http://www.secureoutcomes.net for Product Info.

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Re: reading s-expressions from a file
by Jack Harper 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

Alexandre, be careful with Lisp control characters embedded - back quotes, commas etc. Jack Harper Secure Outcomes Inc Evergreen, Colorado USA At 10:27 AM 6/26/2019, LuÃs Oliveira wrote: >On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 5:19 PM Alexandre Rademaker ><arademaker(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > The âreadâ function makes really easy to > read a bunch of s-expressions from a file, but > how can I keep track of the line number where the expressions were in the file? > >One way to do it is to define a stream that keeps track of the current >line. Here's an example of such a stream: ><https://github.com/cl-stream/cl-stream/blob/master/line-tracking-stream.lisp>. > >-- >LuÃs Oliveira >http://kerno.org/~luis/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Harper, President Secure Outcomes Inc 2942 Evergreen Parkway, Suite 300 Evergreen, Colorado 80439 USA 303.670.8375 303.670.3750 (fax) http://www.secureoutcomes.net for Product Info.

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Reading S-expressions from files
by Alexandre Rademaker - alexrad＠br.ibm.com 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

The “read” function makes really easy to read a bunch of s-expressions from a file, but how can I keep track of the line number where the expressions were in the file? Any ideia? Sent from my iPhone

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Re: CDR-14 and optional modules
by Marco Antoniotti 01 Jun '19

01 Jun '19

Hi if you don’t load code that implements a feature you wouldn’t be able to push a feature onto the *FEATURES* list. That is, unless you are a jerk :) :) :) and push stuff onto the *FEATURES* list just for the heck of it, or as a, I’d say tasteless, joke :) :) :) Cheers MA > On May 12, 2019, at 22:04 , Michael Raskin <38a938c2(a)rambler.ru> wrote: > > Hello > I look at CDR-14 that says about putting :CDR-NN symbols into > *features* if implementation purports to implement a CDR. What is the > recommended behaviour in the case when the implementation provides > a loadable module to support a CDR? Should the feature be always present > or only appear when the module is loaded? > What are the opinions? > > Thank you, good bye > Michael Raskin > > > -- Marco Antoniotti

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Reading spreadsheets
by Nick Levine 22 May '19

22 May '19

Has anyone tried reading a google spreadsheet from lisp (Allegro)? Searching produced a couple of libraries for this, and neither of them compiled cleanly (which is not where I wanted to spend my morning). - nick

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Re: Pre-submission discussion: code walking
by Antoniotti Marco 12 May '19

12 May '19

HI > On May 8, 2019, at 18:24 , Michael Raskin <38a938c2(a)rambler.ru> wrote: > > > Thank you for your comments. > >> * The proposal requires the presence of a CDR-NN package. Such a proposal should be made separately. FTTB if CDR-14 is used, only the CDR-NN feature should be provided. I would be in favor of a new CDR stating that a CDR-XX nickname could be added to a package implementing a given feature. > > I thought that maybe I don't want to create too many proposals at once. I see, I will split. > >> * The proposal as is may not be portably implemented by a third party without resorting to implementation support which may or may not be there. The problematic operators are WITH-PARENT-ENVIRONMENT and ENVIRONMENT-ENTRY-NAMES. Do you see any way to provide it in a simple (read: non SBCL) way? >> >> Finally, COPY-ENVIRONMENT may and LEXICAL-ENVIRONMENT also be problematic. > > Note that B-level and C-level support requires some properties of underlying implementation that do not currently hold for many popular ones. I may have misread the proposal, but, AFAIU, even what you call “Level A” cannot be easily provided without a commitment by the implementations. > Also note that I want to provide common names for much more functionality than I want to require. It is enough to have WITH-AUGMENTED-ENVIRONMENT for B-level complieance, and COPY-ENVIRONMENT (or standalone AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT) is not required even on the C-level. It is purely a «please tell me if you already provide this». > > Frankly, I think SLIME wants to do something that boils down to ability to define ENVIRONMENT-ENTRY-NAMES, so that shouldn't be too bad. > > LEXICAL-ENVIRONMENT has very weak requirements, I think on most implementations it can be defined by a third-party library. > > WITH-PARENT-ENVIRONMENT is definitely completely optional — on the other hand, if the implementation never tracks parent environments, it is OK to always have NIL there. LW already has SYS:MAP-ENVIRONMENT which looks like ENVIRONMENT-ENTRY-NAMES, so, yes, it is definitively doable, like everything else, given a “sufficiently supportive implementation/vendor”. I just feel that CDRs should not make too many requests on the implementation. Apart from that, I would also note that listing names should not be sufficient for a CDR. Functions and macros signatures should also be described (*), as well as types. As for the specific content, I would also explicitly refer to the CLtL2 Environment Section 8.5. All the best Marco Antoniotti (*) To the chagrin of the folks at Franz (you-know-why 3:) 3:) 3:) ) -- Marco Antoniotti, Associate Professor tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 DISCo, Università Milano Bicocca U14 2043 http://bimib.disco.unimib.it Viale Sarca 336 I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY Please check: http://cdac2019.lakecomoschool.org Please check: http://troncopackage.org Please check: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/7394/network-bioscience Please note that I am not checking my Spam-box anymore. Please do not forward this email without asking me first (cum grano salis).

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Re: Pre-submission discussion: code walking
by Antoniotti Marco 07 May '19

07 May '19

Hi I looked at the proposal. I agree it would be useful, but I have two concerns. * The proposal requires the presence of a CDR-NN package. Such a proposal should be made separately. FTTB if CDR-14 is used, only the CDR-NN feature should be provided. I would be in favor of a new CDR stating that a CDR-XX nickname could be added to a package implementing a given feature. * The proposal as is may not be portably implemented by a third party without resorting to implementation support which may or may not be there. The problematic operators are WITH-PARENT-ENVIRONMENT and ENVIRONMENT-ENTRY-NAMES. Do you see any way to provide it in a simple (read: non SBCL) way? Finally, COPY-ENVIRONMENT may and LEXICAL-ENVIRONMENT also be problematic. cheers Marco Antoniotti On Apr 25, 2019, at 16:47 , Michael Raskin <38a938c2(a)rambler.ru<mailto:38a938c2@rambler.ru>> wrote: Hello. I want to try to do something about portability of universally present features, given that stndard revisions are extremely unlikely, and CDR process seems to be the best way to obtain a stable ID for some version of description. As automatic code processing is a large part of Common Lisp identity as it is presented, and there is a small and easy to define chunk of functionality that is missing, I am preparing a CDR on portable code walking support. Before I formally submit a CDR proposal, I want to try to get some feedback. The current version of the writeup I have is at: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/mraskin/cdr-walkability/blob/master/walkabil… Please comment on that proposal, here or via issues or maybe even merge requests. I will announce the link to the discussion in the ELS mailing list (as ELS conference seems to be the closest approximation to community discussion we have). I considered including Trucler API as an option, but currently I doubt I am able to do it well: mixing a coherent API with multiple optional additions that are useful even as single functions is a harder task. I want to start somewhere. Separately, if someone has some proposals on how to make CDR process used more — or matter more, please share. Probably on cdr-devel https://mailman.common-lisp.net/listinfo/cdr-devel Thank you, goodbye Michael Raskin -- Marco Antoniotti, Associate Professor tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 DISCo, Università Milano Bicocca U14 2043 http://bimib.disco.unimib.it Viale Sarca 336 I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY Please check: http://cdac2019.lakecomoschool.org Please check: http://troncopackage.org Please check: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/7394/network-bioscience Please note that I am not checking my Spam-box anymore. Please do not forward this email without asking me first (cum grano salis).

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Is your company listed in the "awesome" list ?
by vindarel 11 Apr '19

11 Apr '19

Hello lispers, I find quite important to have an up to date list of companies using Common Lisp at hand, to effectively answer: "of course CL is still used and picked by companies today, look:". We now have such a list with https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies Is your company in it ? We had an old one: http://pchristensen.com/blog/lisp-companies/ where he had this funny good point, which still held until the "awesome" list: > Everyone says “Nobody uses Lisp” and Lispers say “Yes they do, there’s ITA, and, um, Autocad, and, uh, oh yeah, Paul Graham wrote Viaweb in Lisp!” Not very helpful for either side. I encourage you to make a pull request to github, or to create an issue with a couple information, or to simply answer in this thread and I'll edit the list. If your company's website doesn't mention CL, it'd be necessary you explain in a sentence the type of product CL is used for. Thank you ! Vincent

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Looking for Lisp consultant
by Remi van Trijp 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Dear fellow Lisp programmers I am a researcher at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris, and together with the VUB Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Brussels we have developed an open source framework in Common Lisp for conducting experiments on language evolution (see https://gitlab.ai.vub.ac.be/ehai/babel-core <https://gitlab.ai.vub.ac.be/ehai/babel-core> and https://emergent-languages.org/ <https://emergent-languages.org/>) under the Apache 2.0 license. One of the systems in this framework is Fluid Construction Grammar, a platform for developing natural language grammars for parsing and generation. We use LispWorks for our development, but also ensure compatibility with sbcl. I am currently looking for a Lisp consultant who can help us out for developing in the first place a few free-to-use apps, and if the collaboration is successful, perhaps work on a more ambitious project on refactoring the code, developing additional tools, and reviving some art-science projects we’ve done in the past. The app for which I am currently looking a consultant involves a ready-to-use editor for Fluid Construction Grammar: we often organise ateliers for teaching students how to write grammars in Fluid Construction Grammar, but we always lose time on getting people to install Lisp + other dependencies. We would therefore like to have an editor that already has an image of our software working. I created one myself using LispWorks 7.0 for Mac (which you can find here: https://github.com/EvolutionaryLinguisticsAssociation/Babel2/wiki/FCG-Editor <https://github.com/EvolutionaryLinguisticsAssociation/Babel2/wiki/FCG-Editor>) but it has several bugs/shortcomings and we would like one for supporting multiple platforms. You can work from distance for this project, but we prefer consultants that are sufficiently close to Paris, France for also being able to meet in person (especially if we move to more ambitious projects). If you are interested, you can contact me directly at remi.vantrijp(a)sony.com or remi.vantrijp(a)gmail.com. Kind regards, Remi van Trijp Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris https://www.csl.sony.fr/ <https://www.csl.sony.fr/>

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Please Contribute what you can to the ASDF Fundraiser (now with Doubling)
by Dave Cooper 16 Feb '19

16 Feb '19

Happy Friday Everyone! Now is your opportunity to inject some energy into your technical community by contributing what you can to the ASDF Appreciation Fundraiser going on here: https://payments.common-lisp.net/asdf Until we reach the doubling limit, your contribution will be amplified by 100% (i.e. DOUBLED), thanks to the generosity of Franz Inc and another donor who remains anonymous. If you're completely satisfied with ASDF, please contribute in order to show appreciation. If you're not completely satisfied, please also contribute, in order to show that people care and attract more energy to the project for continued improvement. Common Lisp continues to survive and even thrive in its way, largely because of incremental efforts and successes by independently-thinking individuals and small companies such as yourselves. With CL, a small amount of sincere effort can have outsized results, and the same is true with your donation, however small or large. Let's keep this awesome power in our hands, and determine our own future! All the best and have a great weekend, -- Dave Cooper Board Member, Common Lisp Foundation

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