[tbnl-announce] Re: [tbnl-devel] tbnl patch

[Edi Weitz]

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:43:28 -0800 (PST), Jeff Caldwell <jdcal at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Here is a tiny patch for tbnl. The motivation is that I'm working
> with blocks of dispatch table entries that are added and withdrawn
> as modules without restarting tbnl. I'd also like reflective access
> to the dispatch table e.g.  to show a web page of installed dispatch
> handlers.

Perhaps this would be something for the "contrib" directory of TBNL?

> To affect the base distrubution as little as possible, I took the
> loop through the dispatch table that funcalls each entry and moved
> that loop into a defmethod. Now I can specialize on the method and
> have my own dispatch mechanisms.

Thanks Jeff, I've just made a new release with these changes.

ChangeLog:

  Version 0.8.5
  2005-11-14
  Added generic function DISPATCH-REQUEST (thanks to Jeff Caldwell)

Download:

  <http://weitz.de/files/tbnl.tar.gz>

Cheers,
Edi.