[slime-devel] Find Definitions

[Helmut Eller]

* Terje Norderhaug [2009-12-24 00:00+0100] writes:

> Swank should better aid clients like MCLIDE and SLIME in making sense  
> of the definitions from the various lisp implementations. Two  
> potential solutions have been brought up:
>
> 1) Swank uses a unified representation of dspecs shared between all  
> lisp implementations.
> 2) Swank provides clients with lisp implementation specific  
> information to make sense out of different dspecs.

3) let Swank choose the representation but provide a backend function
if someone thinks there is some value in dspecs.

>
> You mention that implementations differ considerably and that it  
> would be hard to standardize the dspecs. What would be concrete cases  
> of dspecs that are prohibitively hard to unify?

setf and user defined defining forms.

Helmut