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Publication & Postmortem: SPICLUM Library

A drawing showing the evolution of different types of spears, one of which is the spiculum.

I’ve finished version 0.0 of SPICLUM! “System Prevalence In Common Lisp Using MOP, pronounced however spiculum’s pronounced. In case you’d like to disregard the collective wisdom of roughly sixty years of database usage, and instead keep an object store in memory, serialize to and from text files, and rely on as much automagic as possible.” …

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS: Part 3

The book cover of the Art of the Metaobject Protocol

In Part 2 of this accidental mini-series, I improved the original version of ensure-class-using-metaclass to handle arbitrary initialization arguments, and fixed the call from ensure-class-using-class.