[imp-hackers] cl-ext:exit

Sam Steingold sds at gnu.org
Thu Jun 25 03:16:34 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Nikodemus
Siivola<nikodemus at random-state.net> wrote:
\> Since we are all very out of practice in cross-implementation chatter,
> I was thinking to break the ice with CL-EXT:EXIT.
>
> It is downright embarrassing that there is no shared way to do
> something as basic as exit a CL program. Every implemention that I
> know of provides an operation to do it: some call it QUIT, some call
> it EXIT, and the arguments vary wildly -- but it's always there. To my
> mind it would make an excellent point to look for a consensus, and
> maybe even agree on a package (CL-EXT?) where it could be found.

clocc/src/port/ext.lisp:quit has been around for 10+ years.

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Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org>




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