[cltl3-devel] Fwd: RFC: CLtL3 Charter

[Drew Crampsie]

2009/9/1 Luís Oliveira <luismbo at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Drew Crampsie<drew.crampsie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I understand that what a lot of people want is a 'standard library',
>> and not an updated description. I'd like that too. But we have to get
>> there somehow, and as it stands we cannot build our 'standard library'
>> on Standard Common Lisp. That is what CLtL3 is trying to fix.
>
> Point 2 is perhaps a bit confusing on this matter. Is building such a
> library part of the CLtL3 effort? If not, point 2 doesn't make that
> very clear.

Getting to the point where we can build such a library is the purpose
of the CLtL3 effort. That library (or libraries.. competition is good)
will come later, once it's possible to build it :). It may indeed be
the same people who work on cltl3 that make (or gather) the library,
and i'd like to document the library as a part of CLtL3 (one stop
shopping!), but we need to get there first.

My personal goals involve building such a library, but i want to limit
the scope of the (initial) CLtL3 effort to something that can actually
be achieved,  and be useful, with minimal effort on the parts of all
involved.

At one point the idea of three levels was mentioned : base,
extensions, and library. Our initial focus should be on the base
language, and be kept as small and simple as possible. If, in
parallel, library authors wish to write code to CLtL3 rather than ANSI
+ extensions, that's a big plus.

So, point 2 might need a little re-wording if the intent is not clear.

Cheers,

drewc

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