Using processes in CLIM

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• Subject: Using processes in CLIM
• From: Jeff Morrill <jmorrill@BBN.COM>
• Date: Tue, 2 Apr 91 10:07 EST

    It would be rather awful if the use of documented and supposedly portable
    features of CLIM resulted in applications effectively only being portable 
    to a limited set of implementations which happen to provide a particular 
    tasking model.

Portability is always a nice thing.  On the other hand, one must be careful
not to force CLIM to fit the "least common denominator" across all target
platforms.  If there are "advanced" features that CLIM could make good use of,
then it should, even if those features might not exist in a meaningful way
in Nintendo Common Lisp.

Perhaps FORCE-OUTPUT provides a useful analogy here.  Some Lisps buffer their
output, others don't.  So FORCE-OUTPUT is always there but doesn't always
do something meaningful.

jeff morrill

"Machine-independent program:  A program that won't run on any machine."

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