mgl-pax
Documentation system, browser, generator. (by melisgl)
quid-pro-quo
A contract programming library for Common Lisp in the style of Eiffel’s Design by Contract ™. (by sellout)
mgl-pax | quid-pro-quo | |
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5 | 2 | |
68 | 91 | |
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8.8 | 0.0 | |
6 months ago | almost 6 years ago | |
Common Lisp | Common Lisp | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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mgl-pax
Posts with mentions or reviews of mgl-pax.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-12.
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Graven Image: improving CL built-in inspection facilities
There is some overlap with DRef (https://github.com/melisgl/mgl-pax/tree/master/dref) and PAX (https://github.com/melisgl/mgl-pax). Especially with the live documentation browser of the latter (https://quotenil.com/pax-browser.html), although that's clearly not REPL-based.
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Documentation generation tool that looks like the hyperspec?
While not the same - https://github.com/melisgl/mgl-pax produces excellent documentation for example - https://rabbibotton.github.io/clog/clog-manual.html
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Punct: `#lang punct`
MGL-PAX - https://github.com/melisgl/mgl-pax
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What is a feature of other languages that you miss in Lisp?
Ada has contracts also. I think possible to implement. https://github.com/melisgl/mgl-pax which I use for CLOG does a good job of documenting specs and gives me some ideas about how to go about it and same with generic functions themselves. At some point all apply myself to it.
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How to improve help in SLY/SLIME?
I liked MGL-PAX's approach (https://github.com/melisgl/mgl-pax). It allows mix documentation chapters and code in the same file. You can mention any entity in the documentation or docstring and it will be cross referenced. Also, it has an integration with slime and M-. works in the docstrings.
quid-pro-quo
Posts with mentions or reviews of quid-pro-quo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-04.
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What is a feature of other languages that you miss in Lisp?
Here's a Lisp library for contracts: https://github.com/sellout/quid-pro-quo (not saying this is what ADA has ..)
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Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp
These are just his opinions. Many people really enjoy CLOS, and closer-mop provides better compatibility across implementations. Hygienic macros can be cool (like Racket's) but ultimately I'd consider them a preference. defmacro and gensym are more than fine. CL's type system is quite flexible, and there's stuff like defstar for better function signatures and quid-pro-quo for contract programming (which can actually solve the heading numbering problem). Multimethods are awesome. If you want an ML/Hindley-Milner type system then you should probably be using a different language anyway.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mgl-pax and quid-pro-quo you can also consider the following projects:
clus-data - Data for Common Lisp UltraSpec - http://phoe.tymoon.eu/clus/
slow-jam - Common Lisp lazy sequence library
montezuma - Full-text indexing and search for Common Lisp
punct - ⏺✍️ Write in Lisp + Markdown, publish to multiple formats
coalton - Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.
picl
liz - Lisp-flavored general-purpose programming language (based on Zig)
graven-image - Portability library for better interaction and debugging of a running Common Lisp image through text REPL.
docbrowser - Browse Common Lisp docstrings