Peter Schuller <peter.schuller-Xe4VFYsu7VRWk0Htik3J/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > can be modified, but otherwise one would have to modify SBCL itself to
>> > get the wanted behavior. The problem becomes worse if this situation
>>
>> ...or send a bug-report. ;-)
>
> But then you would need to convince X number of implementations to
> change... Probably qeasier said than done :)
Whoa, whoa, slow down here.
Try this on for size:
Question: You consider yourself a "gardener". You use implementation
X or library Y. It has a bug / missing feature / portability issue /
quality of implementation issue / whatever. What do you do?
Answer: Report to the appropriate forum.
Of course, I may not always make sense to do this: you may be too
pressed for time, you may not be sure it it is a bug or not, you may
not really care about the issue, etc.
However, assuming you _do_ have a few minutes handy, know what the
behaviour you want is, and care about having that behaviour... send in
the report.
Maybe it turns out that after 15 minutes you have just only figured
out _where_ to send the report, but haven't written it yet or anything
-- and now you don't have the time anymore. That's ok -- let it lie.
The next time you run into the issue (or any other with the same piece
of software) you already know where to send the report.
Sometimes -- when you have a moment to kill -- it pays to hit M-. a
few times and see if the problem (or the way to implement the feature,
etc) is obvious. Sometimes it is, sometimes it is not. When it is you
can fix it while at it, and send in a patch along with your report. If
your Lisp environment doesn't have a working M-. either get one that
does or tell the implementors how much you need it.
I strongly believe that this is one of the best and most effective
ways a "gardener" can tend this lisp-garden.
Not doing that because
> But then you would need to convince X number of implementations to
> change... Probably qeasier said than done :)
is putting the cart before the horse: one thing at a time. After
implementation X does it, you people caring about implementation Y
should have an easier time of getting it to converge.
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs."
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