[Ecls-list] Kamen Lisp - ECL embedded in Firefox

[Dustin Long]

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> 2007/4/5, Dustin Long <dlong at stevens.edu>:
>   
>> Hi All,
>> I wanted to announce a project I've been hacking on for a while. It's a
>> Firefox extension that allows Common Lisp to be used
>> instead of Javascript to script webpages. Naturally, it uses ECL as the
>> lisp environment.
>>     
>
> :-O Wow. That's really something. I am not in a position right now to
> test your code, but that's the best application of ECL I know of :-)
> You talk about the instability of the Linux port. Is it a Mozilla or a
> ECL related thing? And I assume you use ECL from CVS don't you?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Juanjo
>
>   
Yes, I'm using ECL straight from CVS. I'm almost positive that the 
problem is in Mozilla, or how I'm using it. Mozilla uses two class 
hierarchies for strings, Ascii and Unicode, and though I thought I was 
converting between the two when necessary, something isn't behaving 
properly, and its causing memory corruption more often on Linux. I still 
have some experimenting to do.

Also, with the Fibonacci demo I linked to, sometimes there's excess 
characters showing up at the end of the output. I'm relying upon the 
manual's insistence that ecl_base_string->self is null terminated (this 
is still correct, right?) but haven't done any testing yet for whether 
this is always true. Again, either I'm somehow breaking this fact, or 
turning them into JS_Strings incorrectly.

So I have a general idea of what's going wrong, but need some time off 
from the project. There's a few other things I need to work on, but I'll 
get around to fixing Kamen in good time.

Glad you like it!

Dustin