[Gcl-devel] trying to make LISA working with GCL

[Jacques Mequin]

Since I am presently very busy writing in "scheme" the high
level internal R&D model of a new IC, my investiguations
regarding LISA are only motivated for now by curiosity

Unformely, I am searching ideas and possible solutions for my
next year new project

So far, after re-writing my own init, I have succedeed to load
the whole LISA package

The "define-symbol-macro" issue was easy to transform as a
"symbol-macro-let" since the unique involved symbol was in fact
local to a single file

I am now struggling with "print-unreadable-object"
So, I do not know if many more issues are around

But, as an EDA developer, rather than this "inference engine",
I am much more likely to need things such as a "LALR" parser

Compatibility of CL-YACC package is therefore a greater concern

Regards,
    Jacques

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Camm Maguire writes:

Thank you for your interest in this, as I have always wanted to get
LISA working on GCL.  Am pleased to report that all of the above save
the define-symbol-macro are implemented in the cvs head version,
ansi-build.  I believe the Windows port of this is still in progress,
so I am wondering if you have access to a Linux machine.  If so, I
will be happy to help you build cvs head, and then perhaps you could
let us know what obstacles remain for LISA.  We have an analogous
ongoing discussion with the author of femlisp, who has converted the
define-symbol-macro statements therein to equivalent symbol-macro-let
statements -- perhaps something similar can be done for LISA in the
interim.

Take care