7:15:42phoe::notify Bike What do you mean? You cannot do RETURN-FROM in this case; you need to jump from the respective handler function to the respective handler case, and from the handler case you can perform a RETURN-FROM.
7:15:42Colleenphoe: Got it. I'll let Bike know as soon as possible.
7:16:15Colleenphoe: Bike said 6 hours, 16 minutes ago: why does pitman's handler-case impl (and by extension yours) get out of the handler functions with a tagbody, instead of just immediately doing the return-from?
7:46:15phoe::notify Bike This is required because you first need to transfer control out of whatever place you are executing, and only then execute the handler case. If you want to first execute the handler stuff and only then leave control, see test-1 and test-2 in https://github.com/phoe/tclcs-code/blob/master/98-handler-bind-case/clcs-98-handler-bind-case.lisp
7:46:15Colleenphoe: Got it. I'll let Bike know as soon as possible.
13:20:52Bikephoe: second note made me understand, thank you
17:41:04pvei mean tidy up the code without changing functionality
17:41:19pveto make it easier to add feature in the future
17:41:27johnjayidk. get rid of empty lines and printf statements?
17:41:40Bikeno, rearranging the internals of the system to clean it up
17:41:50Bikei don't think i have any cl specific advice though
17:42:57pveBike: a practical thing I often wonder is, how big should packages be
17:45:12pveit's hard for me to get it right, it seems
17:48:57mseddonhmm, how can I add a new, completely empty dispatching macro character according to the ANSI spec from a virgin lisp world? It seems to me that I'd have to first (set-syntax-from-char #\# #\PlaceholderCharacter), and then remove all the dispatch macro characters that are default, but that is silly.
17:49:29Bikemseddon: make-dispatch-macro-character, i believe
17:49:51mseddonBike: doh, I knew I was being stupid. Thanks ;)