<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Stas Boukarev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stassats@gmail.com">stassats@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> Now, seriously, do you expect to develop _in a mailing list_, the next LOOP<br>
> implementation? Perfectly compatible with the standard, the new semantics<br>
> is not disruptive, and with the same detail of specification? </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
</div>So, where do you propose to do it? It's not the new implementation of<br>
LOOP, it's what all implementations have been doing for years, until<br>
somebody read the spec more carefully.<br>
<div class="im"></div></blockquote></div><br>Reading LOOP's specification "more carefully" will not introduce the semantics you wish. Right now the order of statements is "variable iteration" followed by "main statements" = groups of conditions plus imperative statements. You want to move the conditions anywhere, but are not specifying how this should behave in relation to the order of evaluation of the variable initialization and iteration and the existing imperative and conditions. So it is _not_ a reinterpretation of what there is, but a new behavior that has to be specified fully, in relation to past behavior and all the existing clauses.<div>
<br></div><div>Currently there is no forum to change the standard. The closest to it is the CDR project <a href="http://cdr.eurolisp.org/">http://cdr.eurolisp.org/</a> which documents desired extensions. It is not just chatting on a mailing list but somebody committing to writing how some new behavior is introduced. What I do not like about it is that it is not possible to vote, but that is the closest to introducing a change in a rational way in which various implementations may agree.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I do not have time to do that.</div><div><br></div><div>Juanjo</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br><a href="http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com" target="_blank">http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com</a><br>
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