SICL-related libraries

We provide a list of projects that were either created as part of the SICL project, that were extracted and improved from other projects, or that are used as an essential part of the SICL project.

The projects are located either among the s-expressionists repositories or among the repositories at Robert Strandh's collection of repositories. The aim is to migrate all libraries to the s-expressionists site.

Definitions:

• The term extrinsic means that a library can be loaded into an existing Common Lisp implementation, without altering the existing system code of that implementation, and it can be used and tested as any other externally provided code.
• The term intrinsic means that a library can be used as part of a new Common Lisp implementation, or it can be used to replace the equivalent code in an existing Common Lisp implementation. In the latter case, the reason for replacing existing code could be aspects such as performance, maintainability, or documentation.

Libraries related to the standard

In this section, we provide a list of libraries, each of which provides an implementation of some part of the Common Lisp standard, typically a single dictionary.

• Khazern: An implementation of the loop macro.
  • Can be used extrinsically or intrinsically.
  • Uses instances of standard classes to represent clauses, so CLOS is required for this library.
  • Complete, but lacks documentation.
  • Includes an ANSI-test suite, and it passes all tests.
  • Depends on Acclimation.
  • Currently maintained by Tarn W. Burton.
• Invistra: An implementation of the format function.
  • Can be used extrinsically or intrinsically.
  • Uses instances of standard classes to represent format directives, so CLOS is required for this library.
  • Complete, but lacks documentation.
  • Includes an ANSI-test suite, and it passes all tests.
  • Depends on Acclimation.
  • Currently maintained by Tarn W. Burton.

Other libraries

In this section, we provide a list of libraries that provide support for the creation of Common Lisp implementations, but that do not provide code that is directly related to the Common Lisp standard.

• ctype: An implementation of the Common Lisp type system.