and the wording reminds me to that of CCCITT-lawyers. I guess
the traffic on comp.lang.lisp would drop by 50 % if there was
a better hyperspec. So here is an idea.
I could robotically leech the hyperspec from lisp.org and
convert it to some sort of XML. Another volunteer sets up a
wikipedia-like wiki (using the wikipedia software, if that's
possible) and runs an XSLT over my XML if he does not
like it. As soon as that thing is online people can start annotating
the hyperspec, clarifying sentences, providing examples and
gotchas, crosslinking, etc. In other words, the current
hyperspec is just a starting point for a better, shinier
reference.
BUT: There are legal issues involved. I'm pretty sure lisp.org
does not like robots eating their bandwidth. What's more,
there are copyright issues involved because every mirror
of the hyperspec claims a different copyright. It's confusing;
the only thing that is obvious is that the hyperspec is not
in the public domain or open commons.
Anybody in the know here?
Tin
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