abridgewater

CLIM-LISP:DESCRIBE doesn't even MENTION documentation strings for symbols

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Nevermind actually showing applicable docstrings for symbols, it doesn't even mention that a symbol _has_ a docstring. Compare (CLIM-LISP:DESCRIBE 'TRACE) and (CL:DESCRIBE 'TRACE) on SBCL.

Some changes for consideration

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tl;dr: Realtime output of CORB verbs as they are issued by the device driver, instead of having to post-process memory dumps of the CORB buffer space after the fact. Plus...

Compound forms in function position that evaluate to specials have strange semantics

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The simple example is ```(`,quote (+ 3 4))``` yielding 7. A more complex example is ```((`,lambda '(n) '(+ n 3)) 4)``` also yielding 7. What's happening is that the form...

Enter any two forms, I suggest `(describe linedit::*history*)` and `(describe (first (list linedit::*history*))`. Start using Up and Enter to repeat the most recent input, several times. It starts alternating between...