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- Harold,
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- A couple of things make it seem unlikely that anyone would have such a
- package right now. First, we don't even have a final Common Lisp manual
- yet -- Guy's next draft is due very soon, but there will be some tuning
- and hassling after that. Second, there are things in Common Lisp that
- would be very tough to fake on Franz: lexical binding, generic
- sequences, some of the hairy number types, character objects, etc.
- Common Lisp is pretty close to being a superset of Franz, so I would
- expect to see Franz compatibility packages in Common Lisp, but not vice
- versa. Third, if anyone were writing such a package, they would be
- crazy not to have arranged for access to our code that implements all of
- the hairy functions, and nobody has done this to my knowledge.
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- My standard advice is for people to continue to code in Franz with the
- knowledge that they can easily convert their code to Common Lisp
- whenever the DEC Common Lisp is available to them. This should be a
- one-time conversion, since moving the other way after "going native" in
- Common Lisp would be very tough.
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- If someone does pop up with a compatibility package -- even a partial
- one -- I would be interested in hearing about it.
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- -- Scott
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