Re: [Kawa-commonlisp-dev] CL primitives

[Per Bothner]

On 02/08/2014 04:16 PM, Charles Turner wrote:
> Please find more CL primitives attached.

Thanks - I've checked those in.

I tweaked the new tests to use defvar or let instead of
setq, to avoid warnings.

> I'm not happy with my implementation of MEMBER, it looks nasty and is
> probably inefficient. IIUC, Kawa doesn't implement tail-calls by
> default due the Java calling conventions. When I have LOOP or
> something similar I can improve that easily.

These are simple tail-calls, which Kawa optimizes to loops.
(I took a look at the bytecode to make sure.)

> Speaking of nasty, APPLY is even worse. I had to add another overload
> in gnu/expr/Apply.java to allow getArguments to be called from Lisp
> code. Maybe there is a better way to achieve this.

Good enough for now.
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