I've been working with the "Series" package by R. C. Waters for
the last couple of weeks. In "Common Lisp" Guy Steele writes that
the X3J13 looked at "series" and "generators" briefly in 1989.
It is also mentioned that by the time "Series" has been included in
the Second Edition of the "CL" some 100,000 lines of code have been
written using this package. Since the Second Edition has been published
in 1990 more than 2 years have passed. Could anyone summarise what
happened to the package and the whole concept since then? In particular,
has X3J13 made any decisions as to the package? Has the package been
put to much use?
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In article <············@manuel.anu.edu.au> ······@arp.anu.edu.au (Zdzislaw Meglicki) writes:
>In particular, has X3J13 made any decisions as to the package?
X3J13 decided that it wasn't in wide enough use at the time to incorporate
into the standard, but we encourage people to use it and implementors to
incorporate it (as a de facto standard extension).
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Barry Margolin
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