[pro] definitional home

[dherring at tentpost.com]

> On 28/03/2011, at 15:57, Ben Hyde <bhyde at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mar 25, 2011, at 9:36 PM, Kazimir Majorinc wrote:
>>> "DEFVAR and DEFPARAMETER do the combined service of
>>>
>>> - in some implementations, recording the "definitional home" of the
>>> variable ...
>>
>>
>> That reminds me; I desire an implementation independent library that
>> abstracts out the recording of the "definitional home."
>
> That starts with a lisp reader, or at least an implementation dependant
> API to collect the file position of each lisp object read.

The Conium project looks like a good place for that sort of thing.
http://gitorious.org/conium#more

- Daniel