On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 21:49, DanL <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 Apr., 19:44, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm not familiar with the history but is there any reason why >> swank-clojure isn't being integrated into the SLIME distribution >> itself? That should make it easier to make it work out of the box. > > As far as I know, there were problems with the protocol using symbols > in CL's package::symbol syntax (and some other characters not being > allowed in Clojure) after changes in CVS Slime about five months ago.
So it would just need to use a sexp parser instead of directly interning the foreign symbols? Not that I'm volunteering or anything :) > Even if swank-clojure was integrated, it wouldn't be an "official" > part of Slime, but a contrib. I suppose CVS Slime's restless nature > and (as far as I know) non-existent documentation of the protocol also > have their parts to play. Because of some policy that slime is Common Lisp-only? I see all the *.scm files are in contrib/ and not in the main slime directory. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
