finding an implementation of SWANK interface

[73budden .]

Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for a feedback.
> ... Sadly, it had to be reverted because ran into SBCL's compiler lock.
> Perhaps you can come up with a solution?

No. I'm trying to do some SBCL hacking, but I'm (yet) not experienced
enough to fix such things. The patch I suggested is extremely simple,
it works in SBCL and there is a good chance it would work on other CL
implementations too. It is not elegant, but for me it is still better
than grep. And I see no extreme difference between my patch showing
implementation as "defvar" and Helmut's one, which I guess shows
implementation as "defmethod". Anyway there's no explicit statement
that actually they are "definterface" and "defimplementation". I admit
my solution is essentially uglier, but it works while Helmut's does
not.

Slightly better thing would be to show the exceprt from docstring
together with "defvar" and "defun", so that it would be clear that
"defvar" stands for "defimplementation".

But I'm not sure I have the resources to implement that :)


2017-12-19 14:56 GMT+03:00, Luís Oliveira <luismbo at gmail.com>:
> Hi Budden,
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:26 AM, 73budden . <budden73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> defun is for definterface, defvar is for defimplementation. This works
>> at least in SBCL, I guess it is handy. Patch is attached. This may
>> seem a bit ugly, but SBCL does not suggest a way to extend its
>> definition database with new classes, so I see no good way to go.
>
> Helmut implemented what seemed like an elegant solution to this issue
> back in 2014:
> <https://github.com/slime/slime/commit/74ef7010d79fad14db43d6ff989f177a7a8986b5>
>
> Sadly, it had to be reverted because ran into SBCL's compiler lock.
> <https://github.com/slime/slime/commit/f63fd440f1beeadd155b871f5d9fc8729c2dfc0d>
>
> Perhaps you can come up with a solution? Perhaps there's a way to
> force compilation of these methods ahead of time? Something else?
>
> --
> Luís Oliveira
> http://kerno.org/~luis/
>