[Dave Bakhash] Re: cl-array

[Dave Bakhash]

If I remember correctly, one place this could have been very useful in
simplifying code is in tetris.el

dave

--- Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org> wrote:
> 
> Let's bite this time, add cl-array.el to 21.5, and see what happens.
> 
> GNU Emacs does not have cl-array.el yet!
> 
> I guess the major concern is that cl-array.el is conforming to cl
> standards, so that we will not need to make any interface cahnges,
> once it's in use.
> 
> Brian, perhaps you could be a tester since you have a real application
> for this?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Adrian
> 
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 
> Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 08:41:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dave Bakhash <cadet at alum.mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: cl-array
> To: Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org>
> 
> hey,
> 
> I guess I can still maintain it, to some extent.  I don't think anyone ever
> took it over.
> 
> There are several features of CL arrays (e.g. fill pointers, displacement,
> etc.) that I have not implemented; however, cl-array.el will cover people who
> want multi-dimensional arrays, and a few other capabilities of CL arrays.
> 
> You will find version 0.4 here:
> 
>  http://mit.edu/cadet/www/cl-array.el
> 
> dave
> --- Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org> wrote:
> > Brian Palmer <bpalmer at rescomp.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> > 
> > > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
> > >  
> > >> Yes, but not very high priority.  It's not clear to me that our
> > >> characters are compatible with CL, or whether they will be.  As for
> > >> adding CL features, XEmacs has dumped much of the standard CL
> > >> emulation library cl.el for many years, and some of them have migrated
> > >> into C for efficiency.  Patches for more CL compatibilty would be
> > >> considered, and I would imagine probably accepted if they didn't
> > >> conflict with GNU Emacs compatibility.
> > >
> > > David Bakhash submitted cl-array.el some time ago, and it looks like
> > > it might have gotten overlooked. (At least, I don't see any followup
> > > to it).
> > 
> > That's a pity!
> > 
> > David, are you still maintaining cl-array.el or do you know who is?
> > 
> > >
> > > See , for example, 
> > >   http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/199811/msg00174.html
> > >
> > > except that seems to be version 0.2. I've got a copy of 0.3 (that I
> > > found somewhere, not sure where) that I successfully used this last
> > 
> > Brian, could you please try to find the source for your version (0.3)
> > of cl-array.el.
> > 
> > We should contact the author of that version, if it's not David.
> > 
> > Why don't you send cl-array.el 0.3 to xemacs-beta as an attachment.
> > 
> > cl-arry.el 0.2 is only around 11KB.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Adrian
> > 
> > > year for some simple bioinformatics stuff, where a multidimensional
> > > array proved very handy. 
> > >
> > > Would this be worthwhile to add?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Adrian Aichner
> >  mailto:adrian at xemacs.org
> >  http://www.xemacs.org/
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Adrian Aichner
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>  http://www.xemacs.org/
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