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2:40:38
alandipert
hm, should implementation-dependent declaration identifiers inhabit the CL package?
2:49:43
Bike
if you really want what you can do is have them be in your extension package, and make that package used by cl-user
6:05:55
no-defun-allowed
On the bus going home from university again; this time everything went to plan transport-wise.
6:08:23
no-defun-allowed
I'm still not sure as there has been high variance, but somewhere between 1h20 and 2 hours.
6:11:16
no-defun-allowed
Today we were welcomed to country by some of the local aboriginal people, met our course directors, and I attended a lecture on academic writing.
6:13:18
no-defun-allowed
Indeed. There were also many stalls for the communities at the university (but I didn't look at many because someone was playing music very loudly)...
6:13:31
no-defun-allowed
...and there was plenty of time to go for pointless walks around the campus.
6:15:10
beach
If you watch some of Steven Pinker's YouTube presentations related to his book "A Sense of Style", you get some very good examples of how it both is and ought not to be.
6:20:48
no-defun-allowed
My problems may more likely be that I am too terse and have to elaborate more (supposedly like my mother); but there were many examples where the appropriate style was considerably longer.
6:52:37
beach
According to Pinker, the main problem in scientific writing is that it is hard for writers to imagine themselves in a situation where they *don't* know something that they actually *do* know. And he shows some examples of psychological experiments that demonstrate this phenomenon.
6:54:22
beach
So then the writing (or any teaching-like activity) becomes incomprehensible to everyone except a very narrow audience that shares the same knowledge, and sometimes that audience consists mainly of only the author.
8:00:21
splittist
I distrust a lack of terseness. I feat that either the writer is trying to avoid clarity, or they are trying to sell you something.
9:50:31
heisig
Hmm, the logs tell me that people care about CALL-NEXT-METHOD with arguments. Dammit, now I have to make it work :)
10:11:05
heisig
I am also proud of how portable it is. My only dependencies are closer-mop and trivial-macroexpand-all.