freenode/#sicl - IRC Chatlog

1:40:30 alandipert started reading the cleavir docs, really great. added a bunch of context i was missing about compilation in general

1:41:07 alandipert surfing the repo was intrigued by the directory "Kildall" and looked into that too. fascinating, was not expecting CP/M crossovers :-)

5:30:46 beach Good morning everyone!

5:31:07 beach alandipert: Glad you like it. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate.

6:26:21 alandipert beach not strictly a cleavir question, but.. i'm contemplating how to implement backquote and i'm aware of these approaches: reader macro, macro, special form, and combinations thereof. i think ECL was the one i saw that had special forms, and iirc sbcl does it all at read time... and there's of course the macro in CLTL2

6:26:41 alandipert anyway i'm curious to hear any opinion on the relative merits/tradeoffs of these different ways

6:30:36 alandipert all things considered i lean toward the qualities of expedience/simplicity in my own impl... and reader macros that expand to special forms is currently the most attractive

6:34:29 beach I hadn't thought much about it. In SICL, the reader macro creates a macro form.

6:34:45 beach Er, that would be in Eclector now.

6:39:11 alandipert thanks, i'll check it out

7:01:49 no-defun-allowed Good morning beach!

7:07:53 Gnuxie[m] Good morning beach

7:12:05 beach Gnuxie[m]: Hey. Haven't seen you for a while.

7:26:49 Gnuxie[m] Yeah, I don't have much freetime

7:27:01 Gnuxie[m] Speaking of which I have to go again :/

7:27:09 beach See you.