[Openmcl-devel] compiled closures for Qi?

[Gary Byers]

Here's a list of the names of all classes which are subtypes of FUNCTION
in OpenMCL:

FUNCTION
COMPILED-FUNCTION       ; Note that FUNCTION and COMPILED-FUNCTION
                         ; are the same type/class in OpenMCL:
                         ; all FUNCTIONs are COMPILED-FUNCTIONs.

STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION ; as per CLhS
GENERIC-FUNCTION        ; as per CLhS

CCL:METHOD-FUNCTION     ; a special type of function that implements
                         ;  a method.  (The symbol is also an
                         ;  accessor for METHOD objects ad defined in
                         ;  the MOP spec.)
CCL::COMBINED-METHOD    ; used internally in the CLOS implementation

CCL:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT ; as per the MOP, a superclass of
                         ; GENERIC-FUNCTION.

CCL:COMPILED-LEXICAL-CLOSURE ; A FUNCTION (compiled function) which
                         ; is not a CCL:METHOD-FUNCTION and is not
                         ; a FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT and which
                         ; references things (variable bindings, usually)
                         ; defined in the enclosing lexical environment.


If anyone does know what *CLOSURES* is in Qi and how it's used, that
information might help them to determine how it should be set for
OpenMCL.

You could certainly try just setting it to '(FUNCTION) and see what
fails (and why.)


On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Michael J. Ferrador wrote:


> Gary Byers <gb <at> clozure.com> writes:
>>
>> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Michael J. Ferrador wrote:
>>
>>> I've been apropos-ing around CCL:
>>>
>>> does anyone know what might be needed for OpenMCL here?
>>
>> How would anyone know what would be needed ?
>
> Sorry if this was inapropriate.
>
> I was just trying to cut down the number of CLs
> I have on certain machines and this seemed like a
> somewhat deep internal thing.
>
> I thought there might be some people here who
> knew / compared to some other CL internals.
>
>
>> Is there documentation anywhere that explains what value
>> *CLOSURES* is supposed to have or how that value is used ?
>
> I'm still learning to read Qi (written in itself)
> though it does compile into CL.
>
> I think the Qi functions, in addition to the CL compiled function,
> is packing up some (In -> Out) type info along with it.
>
>
>>> I have the other blocks of save (core), & quit
>>>
>>> just dabbling on the Prolog side with Qi
>>> from http://www.lambdassociates.org/
>
>
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