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- Here at the Univ of Maryland, we do have an implementation of
- flavors in Franz Lisp and have used it successfully in several
- large systems. It doesn't contain all the features of the Lisp
- Machine Flavors, but it does implement all the major ones. It is
- also different in a few ways that are necessitated by the limitations
- of Franz Lisp (shallow binding without invisible pointers or true
- closures -- though closures may be in the very newest versions of
- Franz -- we have opus 38.26). The package uses a hashing scheme
- for looking up methods, and the function <- which is used to send
- a message to an object is written in C. Together, this makes it
- an efficient implementation.
-
- We are currently working on a new policy for distributing flavors,
- our other lisp packages and our window package. When we have worked
- it out, I will announce the details here.
-
- -Liz
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-