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21:04:05
jasom
I don't care about functions being used only once; I'd much rather read (frobnicate-the-foo) than 50 lines that aren't obvious that they frobnicate the foo. However I still think return-from is fine IF the structure of your body doesn't lend itself to e.g COND
21:07:39
_death
jasom: I don't have a bad response to return-from, but following the one-function rule usually shows the better way that happens to eliminate it..
21:07:46
jasom
phoe: if you want finer grained version dependencies, either create your own dist or try something like qlot
21:08:47
jasom
phoe: (ql:update-dist "quicklisp") <-- will update *everything* in quicklisp, *or* drop a newer version of ironclad into local-projects
22:26:23
JuanDaugherty
do I correctly understand planetlisp, cliki, and whatever ql gets to be the massed lisp greatness at this point, the equiv of hackage, et al.?
23:00:39
pillton
It would be even better if the environment of a lisp implementation was stored in ipfs.
2:59:39
specbot
user-homedir-pathname: http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/f_user_h.htm
3:03:28
loke`
The glossary entry doesn't say much on the subject: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/26_glo_v.htm#valid_pathname_directory
3:08:47
loke`
Pathnames are the worst part of CL. It's both grossly overengineered and at the same time woefully incomplete.
3:10:08
specbot
Restrictions on Examining a Pathname Directory Component: http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/19_bbdc.htm
3:40:48
loke`
I know how it works. It's jsut that the LCM installation is missingt he runtime library, so I don't even have the + function :-)
4:53:38
atgreen
I get a "Heap exhausted during garbage collection" when I try to (ql:quickload 'lisp-binary). sbcl 1.3.5 on Fedora x86_64. Any ideas? How can help debug?
8:46:52
beach
Every time I have to restart my computer after having installed software updates, I am furious that we are still using operating-system technology from half a century ago.
8:50:38
beach
That would be better, yes, but the best thing would be to move closer to the 21st century.
8:52:56
beach
splittist: A while ago, you hinted that you might do something about my suggested documentation system, or did I misunderstand?
8:55:42
splittist
beach: yes, I'm slowly thinking about it. Or thinking about writing up some outline documentation to start with.