[erlang-in-lisp-devel] Hi, I'm here to help

[Matt Bone]

Oops, I forgot to copy the list...

Welcome Wesley!  If you know how things work at a macro-level, you
should be good to go in common lisp (that was a pun).  It'd probably
be too tedious to just work on testing and documentation (but if you
want to, by all means).  I think some larger examples exercising what
we already have could be useful.  Maybe even a hand-coded port of a
simple but cool erlang app?  Or a portion of one?  I'm working on
getting distribution to work at the moment and hoping to write some
test cases myself.  Other than that, I'm open to whatever you'd like
to do.  Fortunately we can paint with a pretty wide brush with git;
if you want to do something drastic, just branch and we can worry
about merging later.  Otherwise just push to the master branch and we
can always fix or roll back if things go awry.

I just put together an attempt at a manual that could be useful in
checking out the code, etc:
http://common-lisp.net/project/erlang-in-lisp/manual/manual.html

As far as implementation, I've been using using sbcl, but I pushed
some changes last night for clisp and everything seems to work.  One
thing I've noticed is that when you fork a new lisp process from
inside of emacs (whether that be sbcl or clisp or whatever else you're
using) things behave differently: in clisp stdout from forked
processes is sent to the REPL as you might expect, but in SBCL this
output is not sent to the REPL (I haven't cared enough to look, but I
assume this is due to how swank/slime is implemented differently for
each).

--matt

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Wesley Bitomski <wjbitomski at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm Wesley and I have experience writing code.  Although my style may not be refined, I'm tenacious. I've read what's going on, so on a macro-level I understand what you're aiming to accomplish.  Since I'm new to your project, I'm hesitant to start acting on my own.
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> Is there anything specific that you want me to start working on?  Test cases?  Documentation?  Beating up on a frustrating problem?
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> Also:
> What implementation are each of you running?  I have a machine that runs emacs slime with clisp.  Does this matter, or should I be using something else?
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> Thanks for having me, I found out about the project through Facebook, and was asked to join this group by Mr. Rideau to start participating.
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> ~Wesley
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