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Maintaining Portable Lisp Programs - new paper

From:  Paolo Amoroso <amoroso-AT-mclink.it>
To:  Lisp News for LWN <lwn-AT-lwn.net>
Subject:  Maintaining Portable Lisp Programs - new paper
Date:  Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:59:28 +0100

Christophe Rhodes has written the paper "Maintaining Portable Lisp
Programs - It's a bug, not a feature". It examines "the use of
read-time feature conditionals, with particular emphasis on writing
portable Common Lisp code which aspires to both forwards- and
backwards-compatibility". After an introduction and an historical
perspective, the paper reviews existing practices in using read-time
conditionals, and provides some recommendations.

Maintaining Portable Lisp Programs
http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~csr21/papers/features.pdf


Paolo
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