[imp-hackers] cl-ext:exit

[Raymond Toy]

Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
> 2009/7/10 Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org>:
>
>   
>> why not just EXT?
>>     
>
> Because EXT is burned by history: some implementations already have an
> EXT package (eg. CMUCL), which contains implementation specific
> extensions.
>
> CL-EXT does not exist yet anywhere, as far as I know, and hence it is
> up for grabs -- and makes a decent name for a "semistandard" package.
>   
I agree with this.   Plus you can just list all the symbols in cl-ext to
see what parts of the semistandard features are in your lisp.  And it
doesn't prevent you from actually implementing everything in ext and
just sucking the symbols into cl-ext, if so desired.

Ray