Ian Eslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Decision making
> ---------------------
>
> I find that having a straw man system to explore, critique or patch
> works better than higher level discussions.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "straw man system", but what I'd
like to have is a place where a bunch of highly experienced Lisper hang
around to give their occasional comment about particular macros or
functions that are supposed to get added to The Standard Library, i.e. a
place with a good Lisp wisdom entropy.
"Hi, I'd like to see the WITH-ALIEN-BRAIN macro from the AREA53
package added. Here's its documentation string as of now: ... What
it basically does, is ..., for instance ... or ... I find myself
needing exactly this functionality now the fifth time, so I think
it may be worth a shot. What do you think?"
"You know, I had something very smiliar back when I was chewing
code for that other agency (though I named the macro
WITH-BRAIN-FROM-OUTTA-SPACE, FWIW.) It had slightly different
semantics, though, and it behaved quite differently in this case ..."
"Hey cool, that sounds useful! But have thought about the case
when...? I'm not sure it does the right thing there. What about...?"
"We from the AlphaCentaurOS project have this ... which is
not exactly the same as what you was searching for, but I
think both things might be unified like this ..."
Compromises have to be sought,
-T.
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