[closer-devel] Apologies

[Pascal Costanza]

Hi everyone,

I am very sorry, but apparently I wasn't subscribed to my own mailing 
lists, probably due to changes to my email addresses not so long ago. 
Therefore, I have missed the mails to this mailing list. Needless to 
say that I appreciate your input a lot, and if you have gotten the 
contrary impression from my non-responses, please be assured that this 
was not intended. Thanks a lot to Jeff informing me about this.

Here is a wrap up:

- Marco has posted a patch for making *mop-feature-test-path* work. I 
have incorporated that patch in the source code.

- Jeff has posted code that shows that my attempt at fixing the slot 
instance access protocols in LispWorks failed. His proposed fix doesn't 
work, but contains an idea how to fix things in a more straightforward 
way, namely to explicitly pass (find-class 'standard-class) to the 
slot-xxx-using-class functions. I have incorporated that idea into 
Closer to MOP, which allowed to get rid of a major portion of the 
source code. (That's always a good sign.)

Unfortunately, some of the other fixes to the LispWorks MOP don't work 
anymore because of this. It would probably be possible to incorporate 
them again, but on the other hand, they are already fixed in LispWorks 
4.4. (They are related to initialization of accessor methods, 
accessor-method-slot-definition, and reader/writer-method-class.) If 
someone really, really needs those fixes, I can do that. Please let me 
know.

Ah, BTW, Jeff's code now works on my machine. I am going to publish the 
new version of Closer to MOP soon.


Again, sorry for the delay, and let me know whether I have missed 
something else.


Cheers,
Pascal

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