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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 :-)
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