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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
