Lisp, Jazz, Aikido, 10 years later
10 years ago, I published a short blog entitled “Lisp, Jazz, Aikido”, barely scratching the surface of what I found to be commonalities between the 3 disciplines. At the time, I …
Standard IO syntax and the Robustness Principle
Here is a flagrant illustration of the robustness principle, or rather, of a failure to honor it. I was investigating a bug in Declt where some floating point numbers were printed …
The Return of Segfaults
I was watching the discussion between Gilad Bracha and Matthias Felleisen on gradual typing this afternoon (it’s available on YouTube). This was the last event at the STOP …
Lisp Corner Cases: Method Combinations
In the process of writing Declt, I had to deepen my knowledge of some Lisp corner cases, notably in the area of introspection. As you know, Common Lisp has more than 2 namespaces …
Nice little trick du jour
This morning, I came up with a nice little trick which made my day. Perhaps this is already well known or even idiomatic, but in case it is not, it goes like this.
The Syntax Extension Myth
Here’s a little Monday Troll. To my greatest disappointment, I discovered today that it is not possible to replace Lisp parenthesis by, say, curly braces. What a shame. Hell, it’s …
One More Indentation Hack
Here’s yet another indentation hack that I came up with recently. All the work done by Nikodemus on the Slime indentation contrib is pretty cool, especially the notion of …
Read-Time String Concatenation
Sometimes, I miss the string concatenation capability of C. I mean, the way that you can split a long string into smaller ones and have them automatically concatenated together. …
Which Open Source License for Lisp?
It’s been a long time since I last thought about this. Software licensing is probably the most dreadful computer science topic to me. So out of boredom, laziness, but also out of a …
Towards ABCL Standalone Executables
UPDATE: ABCL now supports the POSIX-compliant use of --, so I’ve modified this article to reflect that. I’ve also added a final trick to emulate the existence of a proper argv[0].