Re: [slime-devel] Re: Did someone say they were working on a GF browser?

just for the archives :) my original cc didn't work, but the p.s. is obsolete now

-ts ,-----

Thomas Schilling tjs_ng@yahoo.de writes:

...

• "Takes a method description and tries to remove this method.

+MSPEC string must be a string representation of a list with the format +(METHOD NAME {QUALIFIER}* SPECIALIZER-LIST).

[...]

...

•              (fboundp (second sexp)))
  

•         (let* ((gf (fdefinition (second sexp)))
  

•                (qualifiers (loop for q in (cddr sexp)
  

•                                  while (not (listp q))
  

•                                  collect q))
  

•                (specializers (car (last sexp)))
  

•                (method (find-method
  

•                         gf qualifiers
  

•                         (mapcar (lambda (x)
  

•                                   ;;FIXME: is it really a good 
  

idea

•                                   ;;to call eval here?
  

•                                   (if (consp x)
  

•                                       (list 'eql (eval (cdr x)))
  

•                                       (find-class x)))
  

•                                 specializers)
  

Passing the "method descriptions" as a strings between Emacs and Lisp is a bit problematic (read-case, package ...). If I where to build a GF browser I'd keep the list of methods as first class values on the Lisp side. The index in the list could then be used to refer to a particular method.

Well, that would make many things easier/more portable. And it would make it work with eql-specializers on acl62.

Ok, I'll give it a try.

What do you think of the current style of making it a xref add-on? Would you prefer a stand-alone gf browser buffer? (or do you have no opinion on this issue?)

-Thomas

p.s.: cc'ing to slime-devel@common-lisp.net doesn't seem to work. at least I couldn't see any newer messages in the archive and the never appear on gmane.lisp.slime.devel