Re[2]: 1. with-wish 2. *read-eval*

[sshteingold@cctrading.com]

Thanks for the reply!

Sam Shteingold <sshteingold@cctrading.com> wrote:
     
>      1. with-wish.lsp has no chances to work with clisp (or *anything*) 
>      under win32, because in their infinite wisdom, MS decided that a 
>      program can have no more than one out of stdio or windows, and when 
>      wish opens a window, it looses stdin, thus clisp cannot control it.
     
This is not true. An application compiled as "console application" has 
standard input and standard output (which may be a console or a 
bidirectional Emacs connection, for example), and it can open as many 
graphics windows as you like. I've been doing this all the time here 
at work.
     
     Aha! What I wrote was just what the gnuplot folks told me. May I post 
     this to the comp.graphics gnuplot and ask them to comment? It is 
     important to me to be able to plot from within clisp.
     
     More to the subject of with-wish - this would require *me* to 
     recompile wish. Which is not an option (for me).
     
>      2. X3J13 (how did they come up with such a wondrous letter/digit 
>      combination?) voted in June 1989 <40> to add a new reader control 
>      variable, *read-eval*. (CLtL2 22.1.2 p 524) It seems to be of enormous 
>      importance to security, but is apparently missing from CLISP.
     
Since you think it's important, it will be implemented in the next CLISP 
release.
     
     Thanks a lot! I appreciate your care. But you seem to disagree that it 
     is a security concern. Why?
     
Btw, X3 is ANSI's subdivision dealing with programming languages 
(counterpart of ISO's SC22), and X3J13 is the group for Lisp (counterpart 
of ISO SC22/WG16). :-)
     
     I thought so - that this is a hierarchical thing. Oh well...
                       Sam.