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21:10:48
pjb
Even if there was 1 million lispers, there's few reason why they should all meet on irc.
21:20:20
wasamasa
a magnitude more people means that most are blissfully unaware of #commonlisp or pretend it's not a thing
21:38:01
MichaelRaskin
Or have joined when the naming was unclear and have not got around to leaving
21:39:33
edgar-rft
Lisp is an old language, probably lots of old freenode users have died without closing their IRC client first.
21:51:02
aeth
or literally all of them are waiting for Airship Scheme to be completed since that's at the intersection of both CL and Scheme.
21:51:47
aeth
more seriously, you could have a bot to find the most relevant channel (sort of like the /topic here but more in detail)
21:53:46
aeth
it could have a database of all of the general channels (e.g. #lispgames) and all of the very specific channels (e.g. #guile, #sbcl)
21:56:47
aeth
my idea wouldn't quite be hierarchical but it could come close, e.g. a Common Lisp game engine would both fall under a more specific narrowing of #lispgames while also falling under #commonlisp (while a Scheme game engine would fall under #scheme, its Scheme dialect, and #lispgames) etc.
7:38:46
vhallac
Hello. I am trying to configure nyxt without proper common lisp knowledge. I am stuck at some point.
7:40:59
vhallac
There is also a generic method that accepts instances of data-profile and data path.
7:41:43
vhallac
What I want is to use a defmethod that matched my profile with any type of data-path
8:28:26
vhallac
pjb: My mistake, I should have explained better. moo accepts two parameters: a profile and a path.
8:29:34
vhallac
In one defmethod, I want a specific profile matching all paths, and in another, a specific path for all profiles.
8:34:51
pjb
vhallac: or you may use (path data-path) if you don't want to accept strings, pathnames, numbers, lists, any other lisp object as path.
8:35:36
pjb
vhallac: you can use (path t) for example if you (call-next-method) and rely on the next method to dispatch on the specific path class.