"Luís Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assuming that you find at least some of Alexandria's utilities useful > -- say PARSE-BODY -- consider that while these are typically short > pieces of code, many deal with subtle details that can go wrong. > Getting these from a library that includes a test suite and is > shared/used/reviewed by many other programmers sounds like a good idea > to me.
This statement should be stressed. A lot of utility functions that you usually write on the way are written very ad-hoc for the task at hand. And even if you do the extra effort, and try to make them more general, they're often broken in edge-cases. Having contributed to Alexandria, I can say that caring about all the minutiae that are involved is very burdensome and strenuous. It made me understand how the ANSI standard took a decade to be produced. -T. _______________________________________________ cffi-devel mailing list cffi-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cffi-devel
