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Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: "Anthony Cartmell" <AJCartm...@csi.com>
Date: 2000/03/28
Subject: Re: Dangling Closing Parentheses vs. Stacked Closing Parentheses
> For Anthony Cartmell, I don't know IDL, and I've already posted ICAD is pretty much source-only (if I understand what you mean about being > the opinion of an ICAD developer, but it seems to me that whether > or not IDL rules should allow for dangling parens should be weighed > heavily on whether or not a defpart is source-only, or whether it > is possible by any means to get hooks into the source (by way of > a code-walker, macroexpansion, or other debugging activity). If > the former, then it doesn't matter. If the latter, then unless > there have been extensions to ICAD's pretty-printer over CL's > printer, the intermediate forms will look "wrong", because they > will have no dangling parens. able to print the thing to re-generate the source), as the real lisp code is generated by the compiler from some fairly hefty macros, the main one being defpart. As far as I know there is no way to generate the code for a defpart created object from the Lisp object itself. You can view the code in the ICAD browser but think that is done by storing fragments of source, and I seem to remember it keeps the original layout. I may be wrong, it's never seemed to me a very useful thing to do. ICAD is really an fairly object-oriented language that just happens to be An interesting angle on the discussion, thanks! Anthony You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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