[eurolisp] [ANN] Closer Project: New Releases

[Ernst van Waning]

Hello Pascal,

Last time we met was at Stanford, if I remember well...   Long time ago.
How are you?  I'm doing fine.  OK, that said, let me come to the point :-)

Visited the websites oyu mentioned below.   Your blogspot is OK -- I should
make one myself as well -- but the page of te closer project did not display
today.  Will try again tomorrow.

Feb 12th: JonL has tried to persuade me to go there.  It is 200KM from
Muiderberg to Brussels and 200KM back, and I do have the impression that the
subjects of the day are not wholly new to me.  Of course, I look forward to
meet you, but should I come?

Mission of the ALU: as member of the Extended Board I have sent a mission
statement to you.  An answer was solicited, but I did not receive comments
from you.  Did you miss the email?

Hope to hear soon,

Kind regards,

Ernst

> Onderwerp: [eurolisp] [ANN] Closer Project: New Releases
> 
> Today, I have released new versions of all the packages 
> currently included in the Closer Project - see 
> http://common-lisp.net/project/ closer/ for the project and 
> http://p-cos.blogspot.com/2006/01/closer-
> project-new-releases.html for the announcement.
> 
> This project is an umbrella project for a few subprojects 
> whose aim is to improve the usability of the CLOS MOP across 
> different Common Lisp implementations. It is also the home of 
> ContextL, a full-fledged CLOS extension in its own right 
> providing language constructs for Context-oriented Programming (COP).
> 
> All packages now support the current versions of all 
> supported Common Lisp implementations. They are:
> . Allegro Common Lisp 7.0 Enterprise Edition.
> . Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 Enterprise Edition.
> . CLisp 2.35 - 2.37
> . CMU Common Lisp 19c
> . LispWorks 4.4.5, 4.4.6 for Macintosh, Personal Edition . 
> LispWorks 4.4.5, 4.4.6 for Macintosh, Professional Edition . 
> Macintosh Common Lisp 5.1 . OpenMCL 1.0 . SBCL 0.9.7, 0.9.8
> 
> Highlights of the new versions.
> 
> MOP Feature Tests 0.4:
> . All previous known but untested problems have either been 
> resolved or turned into actual tests.
> . Added a test for checking whether the slot order requested 
> by a primary method for COMPUTE-SLOTS is honored by a MOP. 
> (Thanks to Christophe Rhodes for the suggestion.) . Added a 
> test for checking whether the object returend by COMPUTE- 
> DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION can be funcalled and whether the 
> second parameter to SET-FUNCALLABLE-INSTANCE-FUNCTION can be 
> a 'real' closure.
> . Added a test for checking whether one can use one's own 
> :ALLOCATION kinds.
> . Added a test for checking whether a generic function 
> without any methods defined can still be called.
> . Added a test for checking whether a DEFMETHOD form can have 
> multiple qualifiers.
> . Added more fine-grained tests for checking 
> SLOT-XXX-USING-CLASS functions.
> . Added a test whether REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on a class 
> metaobject calls FINALIZE-INHERITANCE. Luckily, all 
> implementations pass that test.
> 
> Closer to MOP 0.3:
> . The supported Common Lisp implementations improved with regard to  
> their support for the MOP, with varying extent. This required a few  
> changes here and there.
> . The lack of extensible :ALLOCATION kinds in Allegro Common 
> Lisp, as  
> specified in AMOP, is fixed. Thanks to John Foderaro for giving me  
> the important hint on how to solve this.
> 
> ContextL 0.2:
> . When rebinding special places, it is now checked whether they  
> actually contain special symbols, so this is now a safe operation.  
> This can be tweaked to omit the check for improved performance.
> . Changing a non-special slot to a special slot in an already  
> existing class is now also supported in Allegro Common Lisp from 7.0  
> on. Thanks to Duane Rettig for fixing the related bug in Allegro and  
> thereby enabling this feature.
> . Improved parsing of layered methods: The :METHOD option in DEFINE- 
> LAYERED-FUNCTION is now parsed and processed correctly. Furthermore,  
> one can now optionally give a name to the otherwise anonymous layer  
> parameter. This is useful for calling CALL-NEXT-METHOD with changed  
> parameters.
> . Added a new namespace for layers. Before, their names could  
> accidentally clash with class names.
> . Added a number of performance tweaks and better error messages.
> . Fixed a few bugs.
> 
> Special thanks go to John Foderaro, Duane Rettig and Christophe  
> Rhodes (in alphabetical order) for exceptional help.
> 
> Pascal
> 
> -- 
> Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc at p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
> Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
> Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
> 
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