Folks-- Is this list still in existence?
Anyway, I created a library located at: http://code.google.com/p/cl-strings/ which is an imitation of Java's String and StringTokenizer classes. Does anyone need such an imitation? Is the Java String functions particular great as these things go? Probably not. But the main purpose for me was to force myself to do the sort of things one does for creating a library, such as setting up the project on the web (in this case google code), documenting the code, writing tests, writing a nice Weitzian documentation page and so on and so forth. (Alas, not all the tests are complete, but the functions are so simple.... ) The great thing about picking the string library from Java is that I had a spec and I didn't have a specific app I needed these functions for. Normally, if I'm in the middle of writing an application, I just write the functions I need and don't attempt to generalize because, well, I need to get the application done. I hope others will pick some simple library from another language and write a cl-lib for it. Maybe if we all picked one and then put them all together, we'd get that "standard-lisp-library" we all want, though I guess the projects at common-lisp.net are adding up to that anyway. Well, thanks for reading! ;) Keith PS. The google code repo stuff is pretty nice. Very clean, nice set of default features, mostly good enough for most thing. _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
