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.

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