Mastodawn

I can connect to this Mastodon server now, so here is the reply I couldn't send yesterday.

I am indeed a satisfied customer of `read-delimited-list'.
In general I can only repeat, perhaps redundantly, the old advice that I myself found in Guy Steele's book:
to set things up, call `set-syntax-from-char' from right parenthesis to the chosen closing delimiter.
Typically do that in a copy of the system readtable, binding `*readtable*' to this copy.

Obviously,
(set-syntax-from-char #\) #\Newline)
drops any whitespacity from the latter (again, in a copy of the system readtable, if you try this at home), so reading all items to end of line in one go as a list is all portable and hunky-dory afterwards.

If there is another specific question as well, maybe I can be of more help.

That was an intense amount of time... A month? I lost track. I decided to rewrite my custom #cffi c2ffi translator (https://github.com/keelah-mt/cl-kl-c2ffi) in #coalton

I’ve been running on fumes this week, tbh I got quite irritated by how slow the rewrite was going. That has nothing to do with Coalton of course - it is an incredibly nice language. The problem is that this project is just a tool to support my #commonlisp #wgpu bindings, and I’ve made zero progress on that since I last posted... which I now see was Feb 27...

Anyway, the rewrite performs better. Unlike my first attempt, it parses Wayland/X11/GLFW almost completely. There is one manual fix I need to do to load the GLFW bindings, and that's good enough for now. I can finally switch from handwritten GLFW bindings to generated ones! Once that is done, I'll be ready to resume work on WGPU.

Unless I get distracted by Coalton! What a nice language!

#lisp #programming

GitHub - keelah-mt/cl-kl-c2ffi: A custom c2ffi -> lisp translator with a twist!

A custom c2ffi -> lisp translator with a twist! Contribute to keelah-mt/cl-kl-c2ffi development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Lispy Gopher Climate w/ screwlisp 1d ago

#software #demo Public Lispy Gopher Climate sunday Morning in Europe stream - 3/29/2026, 7:48:42 AM

https://toobnix.org/w/ktQA9DTKyAe9yhTdoJupxh

Public Lispy Gopher Climate sunday Morning in Europe stream - 3/29/2026, 7:48:42 AM

PeerTube

screwlisp 1d ago

Hey everyone, on the hour it is the Sunday morning in Europe #peertube #ARCHIVE

https://toobnix.org/w/ktQA9DTKyAe9yhTdoJupxh

Do I actually even #code though?

A live #demo of two recent programs of mine.

https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/dl-roc-lisp
https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/nicclim

you can run in #commonLisp

(load "dl-roc.lisp")
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#DL #AI #UI #madeWithLISP #programming #McCLIM

Miscellany
New ECL this week! https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/ @jackdaniel
#XMPP by Glenneth2 https://github.com/parenworks/CLabber
https://cyberhole.online/basic/ is this millenium's teletype

screwlisp 2d ago

So bike on #commonLisp just pointed out to me that (READ-DELIMITED-LIST #\NEWLINE) is nonportable.

> The consequences are undefined if char has a syntax type of whitespace[2] in the current readtable.

BUT #ThePlotThickens it goes on to say

> read-delimited-list makes no attempt to alter the syntax specified for char by the current readtable. The caller must make any necessary changes to the readtable syntax

Which brings us to the poll. What is the presumable subtext here? @vnikolov