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3:59:51
beach
Very well thank you. I just finished reading Jim Newton's thesis manuscript, and I am happy to say it is very good. Now I just have to write a report of it, but I have two weeks to do that.
4:00:39
beach
And, I reserved a hotel room for 2 nights for me and my (admittedly small) family at Novotel (which has good standard) half a block from where the defense will take place.
4:02:30
slyrus1
Great. I managed to add some more drawing types to my painting program and have cleaned up the code somewhat. Now the next area of the CLIM spec I need to understand is "accept" and the like.
4:03:13
slyrus1
I fixed a bug in ellipse drawing where we weren't transforming the coordinates so highlighting was messed up (but it's still on my pdf ellipse branch).
4:03:17
beach
McCLIM is moving forward. It is getting better by the day, and people are starting to discover it.
4:03:43
slyrus1
It's still very much a toy, but it's nice that I can actually print a PDF of a drawing I make!
4:05:48
slyrus1
I don't know that part of Paris at all. I'll have to check it out one of these days.
4:07:02
beach
My (admittedly small) family started working for ILOG when they still made LeLisp and lots of stuff around it.
4:08:23
slyrus1
Anything outside the Blvd peripherique other than CDG and Orly are uncharted territory for me :)
4:09:49
beach
Well, EPITA (where the defense is) is only 10m from the Boulevard, so you might have seen it from the other side. :)
4:12:19
beach
loke: Me and my (admittedly small) family go to Paris Novermber 19. The defense is November 20 in the morning and I don't know what is going to happen after that. I am guessing at least lunch. Then we stay another night at Novotel and go back on November 21.
4:13:09
beach
Yeah, it's the opportunity to take a few days off, have a nice breakfast at a good hotel.
4:13:21
beach
loke: We have a hotel reservation but no train tickets yet, so lunch on November 19 or 21 is possible.
4:47:17
slyrus1
in order to get a define-presentation-generic-function form to work the first arg has to be named climi::type-key. This seems bogus.
4:49:46
slyrus1
"2. Use eq but then export the relevant symbols from the clim package. Because otherwise the user who wants to define a presentation generic function is forced to tamper with clim-internals."
6:01:42
jackdaniel
slyrus1: if you fix ellipse code, please make it in Core/ module, adding more extensions will make this codebase even harder to explore than it is now
6:02:47
jackdaniel
and if you want to export symbols for clients from outside clim internals, then such symbols should be exported from clime package (for clim programmers) or climb package (for backend writers)