[armedbear-devel] Extensible sequences

[Alessio Stalla]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Erik Huelsmann<ehuels at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Alessio Stalla<alessiostalla at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> has anyone ever thought of adding extensible sequences[1] to abcl?
>> Given that our implementation of sequences is copied/adapted from
>> CMUCL, and extensible sequences have been implemented in SBCL which is
>> itself a fork of CMUCL, it may be as easy as copy-pasting from SBCL
>> with minor adaptations.
>>
>> Extensible sequences would allow to easily make Java collections
>> first-class citizens in our Lisp world. This would have a number of
>> benefits, last but not least the fact that we could easily use Clojure
>> collections with abcl. Unfortunately I have not the time to do this
>> myself, but if someone likes the idea and is willing to contribute...
>
> I like the idea! When someone takes it up, I'm ready to help whereever
> needed to get it done.
>
> Do you have issue tracker access? If you do, could you file a ticket?
> That way, the idea doesn't need to get lost.

I filed it as ticket #59: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/ticket/59

Bye,
Alessio