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

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks for your feedback!

Jacques Mequin <address@hidden> writes:

> 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
> 

Great!  If you could post your patches, that would be very helpful. 

> 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

What are the issues here?

> 
> 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
> 

OK, if you happen to try it under GCL and have any difficulties,
please let us know and we will see how we can help.  What would you
think of a lisp front-end to bison?

Take care,

> Regards,
>     Jacques
> 
>  --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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