Re: process spawning on macs

[bill@cambridge.apple.com (Bill St. Clair)]

>Does anyone know if it is possible to spawn separate processes in mac
>common lisp in a manner similar to 'make-process' in lucid common lisp?

'fraid not, though it is high on our priority list for MCL 2.1.

Sometimes you can get similar behavior with MCL's *EVENTHOOK*.
This allows a short computation to interrupt the top-level.
If you can split what you need to do into small pieces, you
could potentially build a state machine that would execute a
piece at a time this way. Certainly not as easy as MAKE-PROCESS,
but will work for some applications.