RE: [Gcl-devel] opening a socket to a web server

[Mike Thomas]

Hi Camm.

| This is good to hear.  I thought we had some socket corruption on
| Windows.  Does this mean that tk now works?

Tk uses different functions, so no.

| > Camm - notice that the doc strings of these DEFUN_NEW functions are not
| > ending up in a place accessible to the CL "describe" function -
| a bug which
| > I think we should try and fix to avoid wastage of useful information.
| >
|
| Right, we certainly need to address this in 2.7.x.  For some reason
| I've heard people disparage doc-strings, so I think we need some
| thought/consensus on what is the right, clean thing to re
| documentation.

I think that they are one of the really good things about Common Lisp.  We
could always ask on C.L.L.

Cheers

Mike Thomas.