8:55:40jackdanielsplittist: how is your pdf reader going? I'm waiting with anticipation because I like the idea very much :)
8:58:53splittistI have paused briefly to work on other stuff. But it can render some PDFs, as you have seen. And there is progress in font-format reading.
8:59:13jackdanielcool, thanks for the on demand update :p
9:04:24mi6x3mis it a good idea to use keywords for plists or symbols are more customary?
9:07:01beachIt doesn't matter. And KEYWORD is a subtype of SYMBOL.
9:07:31beachBut sometimes you might want to use the plist as a list of keyword arguments to a function, and then it is more common for the function to take keywords.
9:40:32minionmi6x3m: look at pcl: pcl-book: "Practical Common Lisp", an introduction to Common Lisp by Peter Seibel, available at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ and in dead-tree form from Apress (as of 11 April 2005).
9:40:48mi6x3mjackdaniel, I'm waiting for the price to drop below $70 to get it :))
9:42:01jackdanielyeah, because it is a very good introductory material
9:42:30jackdanieland it is rather new, so it emphasizes techniques used today, not in early 90' or earlier
9:42:31mi6x3mi really dig the lisp culture beyond the fact that the language is really impressively designed and every aspect carefully thought through