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Publication & Postmortem: SPICLUM Library
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.” …
Continue readingThe Art of the Metaobject Protocol, and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS: Part 3
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.
Continue readingThe Art of the Metaobject Protocol, and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS: Part 2
In Part 1 of this accidental series, I provided a first draft of an implementation of ensure-class-using-metaclass… Unsurprisingly, the first version had some issues.
Continue readingDon’t LOOP when you can MAPCAR et al.
In Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case studies in Common Lisp (PAIP), Peter Norvig gives the following six maxims of good style: …
Continue readingThe Art of the Metaobject Protocol, and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS
… Well, time for an experiment. I’ve previously noted that I find the design of ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS odd…
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