[slime-devel] Re: Did someone say they were working on a GF browser?

[Thomas Schilling]

just for the archives :)
my original cc didn't work, but the p.s. is obsolete now

-ts
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> Thomas Schilling <tjs_ng at yahoo.de> writes:
>
>> +  "Takes a method description and tries to remove this method.
>> +MSPEC string must be a string representation of a list with the format
>> +(METHOD NAME {QUALIFIER}* SPECIALIZER-LIST).
>> +
> [...]
>> +                  (fboundp (second sexp)))
>> +             (let* ((gf (fdefinition (second sexp)))
>> +                    (qualifiers (loop for q in (cddr sexp)
>> +                                      while (not (listp q))
>> +                                      collect q))
>> +                    (specializers (car (last sexp)))
>> +                    (method (find-method
>> +                             gf qualifiers
>> +                             (mapcar (lambda (x)
>> +                                       ;;FIXME: is it really a good 
>> idea
>> +                                       ;;to call eval here?
>> +                                       (if (consp x)
>> +                                           (list 'eql (eval (cdr x)))
>> +                                           (find-class x)))
>> +                                     specializers)
>
> Passing the "method descriptions" as a strings between Emacs and Lisp
> is a bit problematic (read-case, package ...).  If I where to build a
> GF browser I'd keep the list of methods as first class values on the
> Lisp side.  The index in the list could then be used to refer to a
> particular method.

Well, that would make many things easier/more portable. And it would make 
it work with eql-specializers on acl62.

Ok, I'll give it a try.

What do you think of the current style of making it a xref add-on? Would 
you prefer a stand-alone gf browser buffer? (or do you have no opinion on 
this issue?)

-Thomas

p.s.: cc'ing to slime-devel at common-lisp.net doesn't seem to work. at least 
I couldn't see any newer messages in the archive and the never appear on 
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