Hi,
I have now pushed support for ECL 12.12.1 to the Closer to MOP repository and
updated the website. I hope I didn't make any mistakes.
Congratulations for the new release of ECL. The MOP implementation has improved
substantially, and I would now consider it one of the best implementations of
the CLOS MOP, together with clisp and sbcl.
Two issues still remain, on top of the ones I already reported before:
1) The documentations for slot definition metaobjects add parentheses, which
shouldn't be necessary. Here is a test case:
> (defclass test () ((a-slot :documentation "a slot")))
#<The STANDARD-CLASS COMMON-LISP-USER::TEST>
> (find-class 'test)
#<The STANDARD-CLASS COMMON-LISP-USER::TEST>
> (class-slots *)
(#<a CLOS:STANDARD-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION>)
> (first *)
#<a CLOS:STANDARD-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION>
> (documentation * 't)
("a slot")
The result should be just "a slot", not ("a slot"). However, I strongly doubt
that anybody ever notices. ;)
2) What would be really sweet is if the list of next methods that are passed to
method functions is actually a list of method metaobjects, not method
functions. This is how it is specified (but I'm not testing for this in MOP
Feature Tests). It doesn't seem that anybody uses this feature, because this is
the place where the various MOP implementations vary the most.
However, on top of that it would also be good if call-next-method would not
rely on a special variable holding the next methods anymore, but just refer
locally to the next methods passed to the method function. I don't know how ECL
handles tail calls, but if it performs tail call optimizations, then it would
also be able to do this for methods (which is currently not the case due to the
reliance on a special variable here).
These are not urgent features, I believe, just nice to haves.
Anyway, good job!
Best,
Pascal
--
Pascal Costanza
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