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From: mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: More LISP questions
Message-ID: <2468@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 91 01:55:59 GMT
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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Sigh.  Sorry to bother the group again, but I keep hoping people with
More Experience Than Me can clue me in as to what to do . . .

This is the continuing saga of my attempt to prototype a NeXT application
in Common LISP.  I've finally found the documentation (though maybe not all
of it) which explains things like transferring data types back and forth
between C and LISP, calling C functions from LISP, and so forth.  The next
question--are there any pre-written Common LISP files I can load which will
tell ACL about the functions and types used under Objective-C?  In other
words, files that contain all the necessary defforeign's, def-cstruct's and
so forth, so that I don't have to enter in all that stuff myself?  I have
no idea where to look for it.

And a minor question--I remember seeing a passage in one of the many reams
of Common LISP documentation I have printed out, to the effect that it is
possible to set ACL so that message sending is done by C-style brackets,
i.e. [object message]--but I have no idea where to look to find out how to
do this.  What I wouldn't give for a good index into this stuff...

Thanks,
Ken McDonald
{mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca}