Re: [slime-devel] Find Definitions

* Terje Norderhaug [2009-12-24 00:00+0100] writes:

Swank should better aid clients like MCLIDE and SLIME in making sense of the definitions from the various lisp implementations. Two potential solutions have been brought up:

1. Swank uses a unified representation of dspecs shared between all

lisp implementations. 2) Swank provides clients with lisp implementation specific information to make sense out of different dspecs.

3) let Swank choose the representation but provide a backend function if someone thinks there is some value in dspecs.

You mention that implementations differ considerably and that it would be hard to standardize the dspecs. What would be concrete cases of dspecs that are prohibitively hard to unify?

setf and user defined defining forms.

Helmut