[cl-carbon-devel] Hello, new members!

[Chris Curtis]

On May 2, 2005, at 7:28 PM, David Steuber wrote:

> Hi,
>
> List membership is exploding!  Not counting myself twice, there are 
> now three members.
>
> For a while I've been unhappy with how event.lisp maps calls to the 
> callback function to actual objects for event handling.  I thought 
> closures would be a nice solution to the problem but wouldn't have 
> thought it possible.  I mean, what does C know about closures?  Well, 
> it looks like OpenMCL may be clever enough to do it:

This does look nice!

> I'm not sure right now how to unwed from OpenMCL.  I'm hoping that can 
> be achieved with the appropriate macrology and CLOS classes.  At the 
> moment, I'm placing a higher priority on getting a class structure 
> worked out that favors CLOS's features.

That's exactly how I was starting to sketch out the abstraction... so 
far the main conceptual difficulty is the fight between macro vs. 
OO-style, and I haven't come down on one side or the other yet.

--chris