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20:41:52
skeuomorf
Re: Robust Software, I like this "rant" from one of the wizards https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/readings/robust-systems.pdf
2:49:21
phf
does anybody have slime/swank backport to emacs 21, or have last favorite version that works with it?
5:37:21
anticrisis
is there a handy function that lets you assign your own nickname to a package you import or use?
5:45:13
pillton
SBCL and ECL support package-local nicknames though. http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Package_002dLocal-Nicknames
5:48:02
anticrisis
do other implementations ignore defpackage clauses they don't recognize or do you have to put a #+(or sbcl...) thing in front?
5:57:33
anticrisis
Interesting, "Logging in has been restricted to pre-existing users to prevent abuse."
6:38:10
drmeister
Are there any good libraries for doing substitutions in strings? Say (string-replace "{foo} something {bar}" '(("{foo}" . "replace-foo") ("{bar}" . "replace-bar")))
6:49:59
drmeister
I recall there was something in cl21 that did that - but people didn't like it as a general way of working with formatted output.
7:04:56
jackdaniel
drmeister: for a slighlty different approach for formattted output, you may read http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/format-stinks.html which has simple `out' macro defined