From ... Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!Norway.EU.net!127.0.0.1!nobody From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: ACL 6.0 Trial Edition ships with non ANSI reader behavior. Date: 08 Nov 2000 01:34:13 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3182636053404235@naggum.net> References: <3A04CA75.96A92BE8@fisec.com> <4s1j3ht1.fsf@content-integrity.com> <5c0h0t4v5nleu9tchk3b7g8pm6roe3aujd@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 973648090 14819 195.0.192.66 (8 Nov 2000 01:48:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Nov 2000 01:48:10 GMT mail-copies-to: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.lisp:3454 * Kevin Layer | I have trouble believing we have perpetrated a "ruse" because we | require someone considered to be a programmer to wait a few seconds | for the following form | | (progn | (build-lisp-image "alisp.dxl" :case-mode :case-insensitive-upper | :include-ide nil :restart-app-function nil) | (sys:copy-file "sys:mlisp" "sys:alisp")) | | to complete and to produce a case insensitive upper image. Why not do that as part of the installation, then? But note that you have to add my little patch to the "mlisp", too, in order to get readtable-case to work and your system to stop lying about what it actually does. | Not to mention that this is in a **free** product. One that we | provide to the community at great effort and expense. This is all uniformly appreciated, without reservations, and perhaps much more than you think. It's _because_ it is highly valued by the community that this ruckus has erupted. If it was just some more "free" trash on the market, nobody would care what you had done. #:Erik -- Does anyone remember where I parked Air Force One? -- George W. Bush