"Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr@freebits.de> writes:
Matthias Koeppe <mkoeppe+slime@mail.math.uni-magdeburg.de> writes:
As I explained before, we cannot use READ in the context of autodoc anyway because of interning.
I just committed my changes to remedy the interning. It does still fall back to READ. The benefit is that this also fixes interning for `slime-complete-form' at once --- which until now always interned everything.
The solution in the new version of READ-FORM-SPEC is not sufficient, because it does not handle symbols interned in nested forms. I type: (defmethod (tyy zzz) abcd ... now (SWANK::READ-FORM-SPEC ("(tyy zzz)")) gets called, and returns values ((TYY ZZZ)) NIL. Now: (find-symbol "TYY") TYY :INTERNAL In general the "destroy-and-repair" (here: "intern-and-unintern") method is not giving a clean implementation. As I said, you simply cannot use READ in the context of autodoc. What you need to do -- if you want to use your proposed protocol of sending forms to SWANK -- is implement a limited reader in READ-FORM-SPEC. It only needs to handle lists, numbers, strings, and symbols to be useful in this context. It should never intern symbols and gracefully handle what would be a reader error for READ. It should not be very hard to write; give it a try. Matthias -- Matthias Köppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe (currently @math.ucdavis.edu)