So sorry, Peter, I've forgotten to extend my congratulations to you for your new child.
I offer you this quote: "There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child." ~Frank A. Clark Don On 3/10/07, Peter Seibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Irwin wrote: > > Folks-- > > > > Is this list still in existence? > > It is. It's been quiet but I've recently been getting me head out from > underwater (new parent) and working on some Lisp stuff again such as > updating the Lispbox distros and working on the FAQ. > > > Anyway, I created a library located at: > > > > http://code.google.com/p/cl-strings/ > > > > which is an imitation of Java's String and StringTokenizer classes. > > Does anyone need such an imitation? Is the Java String functions > > particular great as these things go? > > > > Probably not. > > > > But the main purpose for me was to force myself to do the sort of > > things one does for creating a library, such as setting up the > > project on the web (in this case google code), documenting the code, > > writing tests, writing a nice Weitzian documentation page and so on > > and so forth. > > > > (Alas, not all the tests are complete, but the functions are so > > simple.... ) > > > > The great thing about picking the string library from Java is that I > > had a spec and I didn't have a specific app I needed these functions > > for. Normally, if I'm in the middle of writing an application, I > > just write the functions I need and don't attempt to generalize > > because, well, I need to get the application done. > > > > I hope others will pick some simple library from another language and > > write a cl-lib for it. Maybe if we all picked one and then put them > > all together, we'd get that "standard-lisp-library" we all want, > > though I guess the projects at common-lisp.net are adding up to that > > anyway. > > Cool. One thing I'm planning to do as I resume working on Lispbox is > including various libraries in it that I think are useful. So if you do > work like this be sure to let me know and I'll take a look and see if I > think it should be included in the Lispbox toolkit. > > Also folks should feel free to nominate other libraries that they find > useful. > > > PS. The google code repo stuff is pretty nice. Very clean, nice set > > of default features, mostly good enough for most thing. > > One warning--it turns out that you have to have a "Gmail" account to be > a project owner or member. A non-Gmail Google account is somehow > different and not sufficient. > > -Peter > > -- > Peter Seibel : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gigamonkeys Consulting : http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > -- ------------------------------- Donald C. Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://forwardarc.com _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
