[cl-typesetting-devel] CLISP support

[Klaus Weidner]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 06:46:58PM +0200, Marc Battyani wrote:
> All this is in the repository and tarball now. With #+/-clisp so that we can
> remove them when CLISP loop is compliant. ;-)

I'm really unhappy with this approach. I had changed the code to work the
same way on *all* three platforms I could test on by avoiding the
ill-defined loop behavior, and having the platform-independent version
conditionalized with #+clisp and keeping the previous platform-dependent
version is unnecessary and makes the code even harder to read than it
currently is.

The code should work in a compatible way on all common platforms, and
even if the CLISP people were to agree to change their LOOP
implementation to fit with other people's interpretation of the standard
(which I would not count on), we can't expect people to instantly
upgrade once that change is made. So the conditionalized code would need
to stay for a long time.

I don't mind keeping the one #+clisp for the weird on-list effect, but
even there I'd prefer working around the problem in a
platform-independent way.

-Klaus