[parenscript-devel] New Parenscript release.

[Clinton Ebadi]

John Fremlin <john at fremlin.org> writes:

> Hi Vladimir,
>
> It seems that the new parenscript horribly breaks tpd2.
>
> The awful part of the business is changing from using elements.push etc.
> methods.
>
> You seem to recommend to rewrite them as ((slot-value elements 'push)
> new-thing).
>
> This is completely not at all related to Common Lisp syntax, which was
> supposedly the aim of this change, so I guess I am barking up the wrong
> end of the stick.
>
> Should I wait for the reader macros before making the update?

I've been tasked with re-adding the shorthand syntax to parenscript [0]
in the symbol-syntax if you need these features. Right now it only does
(.method ...)  syntax, but sometime today or tomorrow I'll have
(foo.bar.baz) expanding to ((slot-value foo 'bar) 'baz). I'm not sure
whether it is worthwhile keeping foo[bar] syntax; (aref foo bar) is not
particularly less convenient.

If upstream will not accept the changes this will be maintained as part
of UCW again (probably renamed to avoid conflicts; since ps no longer
uses the js package we'll move back there). I'll try to keep up with
merges from upstream and whatnot as well.

[0] http://git.hcoop.net/?p=clinton/parenscript.git;a=summary
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