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Quote from: "vlad lorenzo"Thank you very much for sharing, I'll check it out.



Up to now my impression is that the approach of xml to name-spaces is provably the most effective one:

Using a URL to define a unique global name-space and a symbol that references it as a prefix to cut down on the verbosity.

e.g.: in the module file:

(context 'example.com/library-name/module-name)

; code...

(context)



in the MAIN file:

; since (context) is the las evaluated expression it can be assigned to a symbol

(define xx (load "/home/vlad/newlisp/example.com/library-name/module-name.lsp"))



I thought of creating a library to add more features, but adding another dependency creates a barrier to sharing code.

i.e.: if every developer has his own unique way of managing name-spaces interoperability tends to suffer.

But I'll check out your library before settling on this.

Quote* creating anonymous contexts to pass around as references without name clashes. (I still haven't looking into FOOP, so there might be a solution there)

Quote from: "cormullion"It's cool! Thanks. Some useful by-products from your recent Clojure investigations?!

Quote from: "m i c h a e l"So it looks like both setq and setf are faster than set. I ran these tests multiple times, and the q and f versions are consistently faster. Lutz, should we be using setq in place of set for the slight speed increase?