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10:01:32 theothornhill Works perfectly :)

10:01:39 beach I know. :)

10:02:23 mfiano Keep in mind it won't work with a deployed binary application, since the path will refer to the loaded path before deployment.

10:03:28 theothornhill Oh okay! Not a problem right now, but thanks for the heads up :)

10:03:45 mfiano You'll have to do it at runtime, using implementation internals, or a portability library, using POSIX argv0 or similar

12:13:46 lukego any happy users of GENERIC-CL?

12:50:16 beach lukego: What is it?

13:13:46 lukego beach: it's a wrapper around the COMMON-LISP package that converts everything into generic functions. https://github.com/alex-gutev/generic-cl

13:13:59 beach Oh, I see.

13:14:09 beach Sounds like most of SICL. :)

13:15:11 lukego better link perhaps at https://alex-gutev.github.io/generic-cl/

13:16:50 lukego I thought you would be a skeptic of this approach, preferring instead to define new more specific generic functions :)

13:17:42 beach I haven't looked at it (yet).

13:18:25 beach I am just saying that many of the standard functions are generic in SICL. In particular the slot accessors, such as symbol-name, symbol-package, package-name, ...

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16:04:36 MrtnDk[m] minion: memo for aartaka: It was peer. 'peer' was the one to reset your connection. MrtnDk[m] is simply testing the memo system.

16:04:36 minion Remembered. I'll tell aartaka when he/she/it next speaks.

16:05:12 MrtnDk[m] minion Thank you.

16:05:57 beach minion: Thank you!

16:05:57 minion you're welcome

16:07:06 MrtnDk[m] minion : Thank you.

16:07:12 shynoob what's the channel name of lisp in general?

16:07:18 beach ##lisp

16:07:28 MrtnDk[m] minion: Thank you.

16:07:29 minion np

16:13:58 Shinmera lukego: What were you hoping to use it for?

16:14:31 Shinmera lukego: Nothing I know of provides support for it, so it's rather worthless except for your own internal uses.

16:15:24 Shinmera And for sequences there's the extensible sequences protocol, and the trivial-extensible-sequences wrapper library that have at least some amount of use.

16:24:11 Josh_2 Bit of an odd question but has anyone written a sort of embeddable DSL that takes strings as inputs

16:24:30 Josh_2 the use case I have is someone at the top level being able to write something like

16:25:21 Josh_2 #.<module> 'command1 'command <do x>'' something like that the semantics can change obviously

16:25:50 Josh_2 command1 would take commands result as an arg

16:28:00 Josh_2 I can imagine this is something someone has made, I'm not even sure how to approach a problem like this

16:52:06 semz You can do this with readtable hackery, especially if DSL parts always start with #. or w/e, but is there any reason you can't just base the DSL on (maybe slightly modified) Lisp syntax?

16:52:16 semz You have the tools for this after all and I'd expect it to be nicer in the long term

16:54:08 Josh_2 No there is no reason

16:54:12 Josh_2 other than general user appeal

16:54:26 Josh_2 I love Lisp and see the power of parens but unfortunately many folks are immediately put off :(

16:56:27 Josh_2 I think making basic commands like this #.program (def prinarg (arg1) (return arg1)) so you could then do #.program (prinarg foo) -> foo wouldn't be so hard

16:56:51 Josh_2 I'd have to provide a bunch of built in functions for list and string manipulation

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18:20:29 Xach marcoxa: i still can't build helambdap

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20:37:24 shka_ hi all

20:37:42 shka_ can someone bother to run test suite of the scribble for me?

20:47:58 alanz shka_, you mean like this: https://gist.github.com/alanz/2cbc8450ba20efd6b61f59beea3cc98b

20:48:14 alanz is cl scribble like the racket scribble?

20:51:13 shka_ yes

20:51:25 shka_ alanz: thanks

20:51:42 shka_ i was trying to figure out if it is faling just for me

20:51:47 alanz ACTION answer my own question: yes, see https://cliki.net/Scribble

20:52:16 jmercouris hi is anyone able to quickload parenscript in ECL?

20:52:39 jmercouris here is what happens for me: http://dpaste.com/GV7Y6K4HX

20:53:02 alanz shka_, no problem

20:53:42 shka_ issue created

20:53:56 alanz FYI my gist is on sbcl

20:55:29 shka_ yeah, i assumed that

21:16:10 jmercouris nobody?

21:18:51 alanz jmercouris, it loads for me in sbcl, but that's not the question

21:19:02 jmercouris that's correct, it loads for me in SBCL as well :-)

21:25:50 shka_ alanz: it seems to be because of that buffered input stuff

21:26:41 alanz shka_, no idea, I just ran the test for you. And was happy to see that scribble exists. I am still learning the ecosystem

21:27:35 shka_ well, i just managed to 'fix' it by removing the buffering

21:27:50 shka_ i will add this to the issue i've just created

21:28:02 shka_ at least i can generate my documentation now

21:28:21 alanz nice

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21:32:35 gabc Hi I'm trying to load cl-sqlite on windows with sbcl and I have an error telling me that it can't find the sqlite libraries. I do now know where the libraries are looked for to put it there, any ideas?

21:34:20 shka_ well, windows...

21:34:39 gabc Yeah well, I know but that's what I have

21:35:13 shka_ right

21:36:34 shka_ gabc: check this https://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/manual/html_node/_002aforeign_002dlibrary_002ddirectories_002a.html

21:36:51 gabc oooh nice

21:37:07 shka_ check if that helps you with that dll

21:37:19 gabc I'll check it out thanks :)

21:37:30 shka_ have fun

21:39:42 gabc shka_: that works! thanks :)

21:39:58 shka_ hth