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4:26:25
loke
I need to get back into it. I've been spending some time fixing bugs in StumpWM, since I'm moving to it on my laptop.
4:29:49
loke
ck_: my next step is figuring out why the currently implement doesn't work in some cases. :-)
8:33:24
jackdaniel
I may have more time for McCLIM and ECL for a few months now; my consultancy contract on a propietary lisp software comes to an end
8:40:15
ck_
Sounds nice for mcclim and ecl. Have you put some thought into the most pressing questions already?
8:42:03
jackdaniel
I did: if it is to be during upcoming 2-3 months it will be a forefathers-eve, if it will be more like 8 months it will be kupala night ,)
8:45:09
jackdaniel
beach: no, I think that Rigetti is interested in improving ECL compiler, also I have at least a few month buffer before I should start worrying
9:27:45
jackdaniel
scymtym: regarding command-table per pane: that's one of purposes for which ESA was written
9:28:12
jackdaniel
according to documentation it is enough to inherit from esa:esa-pane-mixin and supply :command-table initarg
10:03:04
beach
scymtym: ESA was written a long time ago, and my style and experience have both improved since. So it is entirely possible that it needs to be updated.
10:05:38
beach
scymtym: It may need to be more modular as well. As I recall from Second Climacs, it was hard to use only some of the features.
10:13:18
beach
scymtym: What I am trying to say is that you should not look at the ESA code as being set in stone. As far as I know only two applications use it, namely (first) Climacs and Gsharp, both of which are kind of obsolete.
10:16:41
jackdaniel
ck_: please do (next time just ask, in the worst case scenario I'll tell you that you weren't allowed to ask ,-)
10:17:37
ck_
I meant, "is now a good time". OK here goes: you repeatedly say in your comments to "use defvar" -- I don't think we have the same perspective or reasoning
10:18:12
ck_
I wanted to preserve semantics locally while changing or moving as little code around as possible
10:19:01
scymtym
ck_: did you have time to look at my commit? i think moving code around may be the right thing in one of the two cases
10:19:06
ck_
also you comment "yes, people usually look for where the variable is defined, if it is only declared then it may be confusing.."
10:19:54
ck_
scymtym: I did and I thought I commented on it here -- also thought that you had that in the pipeline so I'd remove the part you already covered when I continued with my pr (which is right now)