[mac-lisp-ide] Extending clotho

[Randall Beer]

>> Might it be useful to think of a Cocoa application as a special kind  
>> of Lisp system?  If we had a ProjectBuilder sort of GUI for working  
>> with (ASDF or DEFSYSTEM) Lisp systems, then we could also use it to  
>> work with Cocoa applications.  COCOA-APPLICATIONS could have  
>> additional file types associated with them, and could also responsd  
>> to a SAVE-COCOA-APPLICATION operation (perhaps by starting up another  
>> OpenMCL with a command line option set to load in the specified  
>> system and then SAVE-APPLICATION).
>>
>
> Yah; this is a good idea.

One other thing that might be interesting for someone to look into:

F-Script (http://www.fscript.org/) allows a "live" interpreter to be  
embedded inside Interface Builder, allowing interaction with UI objects  
in Interface Builder (see  
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/07/12/embed_fscript.html? 
page=3).

I wonder if it might be possible to use similar tricks to get OpenMCL  
talking directly to Interface Builder via a remote REPL, allowing a  
very tight interaction between the two in building GUIs.

Randy