Online Lisp Meeting #10

[Michał "phoe" Herda]

Aaaaaa - I am sorry, I have created the invitations for Thursday 8th
instead of Wednesday 7th. I will send corrected invitations in a second.

~phoe

On 01.10.2020 09:40, Michał "phoe" Herda wrote:
> Attaching calendar invitations.
>
> On 01.10.2020 09:40, Michał "phoe" Herda wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have the pleasure of announcing the Ath Online Lisp Meeting (counting
>> in hexadecimal, obviously).
>>
>> We will have Jan Moringen speaking about Eclector, the extensible and
>> portable Common Lisp reader.
>>
>>> The Common Lisp reader is a collection of functions and variables for
>>> turning sequences of characters into s-expressions, which are
>>> described in Chapter 2 of the specification. While some aspects of the
>>> behavior of the reader can be customized, many parts are internal to
>>> each Common Lisp implementation and thus inaccessible to portable
>>> programs.  Eclector is a portable reader implementation which is set
>>> apart by 1) providing very detailed error reporting (for humans and
>>> programs) 2) allowing recovery from (almost) all syntax errors 3)
>>> allowing customization of far more aspects than other readers 4)
>>> providing a mechanism for constructing parse results with source
>>> information.  This presentation introduces the Eclector project and
>>> explains the customization mechanisms built into its architecture.
>>> Everything is considered from the perspective of a user of the Elector
>>> reader, so its implementation is not discussed.  The features
>>> mentioned above are further illustrated in several (hopefully)
>>> interesting and useful demonstrations.
>> A short Jitsi talk with everyone will happen just after the meeting.
>>
>> Date/time/location:
>>
>> * Date: 7th October 2020
>> * Time: 13:00 CEST - https://time.is/en/CEST
>> * Talk: https://www.twitch.tv/TwitchPlaysCommonLisp
>> * Hangout: https://chat.heisig.xyz/TwitchPlaysCommonLisp @ 14:30
>>
>> Massive thanks to Marco Heisig for providing the Jitsi instance where we
>> can hang out after the talk.
>>
>> A mailing list has been created for the purpose of organizing and
>> promoting the online talks. Further announcements will be posted there.
>> See https://mailman.common-lisp.net/listinfo/online-lisp-meets
>>
>> If you'd like to talk about anything that is Lisp-related, please let me
>> know, and I'll gladly host your video for our small, but very enjoyable,
>> audience. And then upload it to YouTube for broader posterity.
>>
>> BR and see you,
>> Michał "phoe" Herda
>>