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- Regarding the documentation for Franz Lisp and the MIT/Lisp Machine
- compatibility packages:
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- Another option exists for those who might be interested. We at Decision
- Systems Lab have been using a modified version of Opus 38.89 which in-
- cludes the defstruct and flavors code already described. It also in-
- cludes an Interlisp compatibility package which allows Interlisp
- records as well as most of the CLISP forms (these are actually very
- easily simulated with LOOP but we chose a strategy which is more
- in keeping with the Interlisp implementation of CLISP involving
- hashed definitions for CLISP forms.
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- The modified Lisp has all of the up-to-date flavors code and an
- edited version of the manual which describes the format, defstruct,
- and CLISP packages (borrowing heavily from the Laser edition of
- the Common Lisp manual by Guy Steele). It also includes a re-organization
- of much of the older manual into a more coherent form, and a number
- of examples of more difficult concepts.
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- If there is any interest I can make this publicly available. It would
- be of little value to simply have the additional chapter since it
- refers, heavily, to material in other sections. Also, flavors is not,
- yet included, since the status of flavors in Franz was uncertain up
- to a few months ago.
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- For those interested, I will not be prepared to answer requests before
- Christmas but after that I'll be around and can handle almost anything.
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- Sean McLinden
- Decision Systems Laboratory
- University of Pittsburgh
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