From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!feed.newsfeeds.com!skynet.be!skynet.be!ossa.telenet-ops.be!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: basic package question References: <3CC0C3D8.C76B0F00@interaccess.com> <3228289595494575@naggum.net> <3228297207866644@naggum.net> <4pu0u5r3c.fsf@beta.franz.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3228315346754327@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:15:47 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1019326547 193.71.199.50 (Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:15:47 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:15:47 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:32100 * Duane Rettig | I'd be interested in seeing your solution. I have some wrinkles to iron out and some real life testing to do, so the timing of Paul F. Dietz' comments were slightly infavorable. Franz Inc will be the first to know how about this, as you probably will be the only ones to seriously put it to the test, too. :) | I have not had a chance to work on this (and have told Kent as much) | because I am deep into buttoning up our 6.2 version, which has been | essentially feature-frozen after beta release. But I am of course | interested in seeing a solution for the future (it would also be nice if | it were patchable). It should be patchable for either image, but my primary goal has been to give you a very good reason not to distribute two different images, as it causes people to choose the lower-case image when all they want is some of the features that some of your programmers only think will "work" with in lower-case, and offer some fairly ridiculous arguments to the effect that it is "necessary". My goal has been to make it as easy to choose whether you see upper- or lower-case symbols as to set the readtable-case or the *print-case* variable. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief. Post with compassion: http://home.chello.no/~xyzzy/kitten.jpg