[slime-devel] Re: [Ilisp-devel] SLIME

[Hannu Koivisto]

Bill Clementson <bill_clementson at yahoo.com> writes:

> I'm not advocating adding TCP socket code to ILISP or
> merging ILISP and SLIME. I just consider that another
> option. As I said, it could be a "win-win option" but
> it might also be a "Frankenstein". Since ILISP was
> built on top of comint mode, it would probably be too
> much effort to retrofit socket communication support
> as an alternative. 

In a sense SLIME uses socket communication, yeah, it probably would
be, but if you simply want to connect to a repl through a socket,
comint supports that already.  You might need an additional channel
for sending signals.

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Hannu