Re: clisp - general interest in code cleanup
"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.lisp.clisp.devel |
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| Organization | Informatimago |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Daniel Jour <[email protected]> writes: > The issue is if one does not have the time to start reading from the top, > but must/want to make a change now. If you jump right into spvw.d and > start reading code, then there's a lot that you have to look up (and > eventually "backtrack", if you made a false assumption). > > That's why I like "layered" approaches: You put low level code into a > separate file and create an include file that contains only what you're > supposed to be using in "higher" layers together with a extensive summary > of how these functions and structures behave and are to be used. I would not want to detract you from your clisp maintainance, but for a later project, we could imagine an emacs mode where each function (or toplevel form) is presented in its own buffer, with navigation buttons to the callers and callees and other references to the function. emacs would then manage itself the storing of the toplevel forms in one or more files files, you wouldn't have to care about it. Something like the Smalltalk code browser: there's no notion of file then. > (Though that's not an argument for separate files ... all of this could > of course live in the same file; I think it's the "summary" that's the > critical thing which is missing for some parts of the CLISP code) Don't complain, at least you have the specifications of this program! :-) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ clisp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clisp-devel