Re: features

• To: chyde@BBN.COM, pkarp@Sunset.AI.SRI.COM
• Subject: Re: features
• From: Vincent Keunen <keunen@montefiore.ulg.ac.be>
• Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 12:24:17 +0100
• Cc: clim@BBN.COM
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At 14:33 28/10/93 -0400, chyde@BBN.COM wrote:
>re: Peter's cry for consistency in *features*
>
>YAY!
>
>perhaps we/someone should devise a "trip test" to designate what
>constitutes meeting the spec for each version...recent messages
>suggest vendors have already deviated from each other.
>
>the combination should render achieving portability lots easier. of
>course, that begs the question of how badly we need portability...
>

Sometime ago, I collected a list of features from a lot of different
platforms/compilers/machines/...

Mkant did a pretty good job of cleaning everything up and adding it to the
lisp faq.  In this faq, we discussed the opportunity of adding
"suggestions", not the ansi, not the alu suggestions, but simple "lisp faq
suggestions" for small details.  Of course they will be fully compatable
with ansi and alu standards.

So maybe, the suggestions for clim should be added to the faq after a
period of time for people to comment on the suggestions.

This should not and will not conflict with the excellent job of the lisp
standardizing committees, it might just serve the community for little
details and implementation/product specific features.


Vincent

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