[cl-cairo2-announce] syntax change in cl-cairo2

[Tamas K Papp]

Hi cl-cairo2 users,

Comments after this change have persuaded me to change the interface
to something similar to the old one (but with a keyword argument).  If
you are still using cl-cairo2, please let me know what you think by
commenting here:

http://tkpapp.blogspot.com/2009/05/cl-cairo2-interface-poll.html

Thanks,

Tamas

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:51:27PM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I pushed a new version of cl-cairo2 to the GIT repository
> http://github.com/tpapp/cl-cairo2/tree/master where it is kept now.
> 
> The most important change is that I disposed of the *context* global
> variable, and moved context to the first argument, so now you write
> 
> (move-to context 0 -2)
> 
> instead of
> 
> (move-to 0 -2 context)
> 
> or
> 
> (setf *context*)
> (move-to 0 -2)
> 
> I know this is an important change in syntax, and may break a lot of
> code.  I apologize for the inconvenience, but this has been a major
> wart on the initial design and I have always wanted to fix it.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Tamas