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Camm Maguire |
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[Gcl-devel] Re: Major Project |
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22 Oct 2006 13:48:53 -0400 |
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Greetings!
Thank you so much for this suggestion! I'm missing the referent to
this discussion -- is there a context that can be shared?
Might be of interest that I just uploaded a cvs snapshot into Debian
-- test failures now below 700.
There are quite a few other projects in GCL as well which might be of
interest -- please let me know if describing them would be helpful.
Take care,
Robert Boyer <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm not sure the following project would suit you at all, but it is one
> that I could understand and approve and feel sure was a contribution to
> the world.
>
> The implementation of the FORMAT statement of GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
> requires a lot of careful work to move from the older "Common Lisp the
> Language I" (c. 1985) standard to the "CLTL2/ANSI" (c. 1995) standard.
> The FORMAT statement implementation is written mostly in C and is
> reasonably self contained, so one need not deeply understand the rest of
> the huge GCL implementation to make progress on FORMAT. Many FORMAT
> errors are clearly revealed by Paul Dietz's error suite. But there are
> many, many more FORMAT errors, I am sure, that would be revealed by a
> simple careful reading of the ANSI standard and the GCL code. You can
> find free-software implementations of ANSI Common Lisp that are probably
> closer to the ANSI standard with regard to FORMAT in CMU Common Lisp,
> Steel Bank Common Lisp, Clisp, and ABCL. Those implementations might
> provide one great deal of guidance about how changes ought to be made.
>
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Camm Maguire address@hidden
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