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After reading this thread, my brain is now convinced that copilots are actually some sort of small South American mammals. I think I'll stick to that definition; I don't want to lo…

Describing Coalton as a CL add-on or even as a DSL has always seemed wrong to me. It's of course very tightly integrated with the Common Lisp runtime but it's also very different a…

Nice, pretty much what I had in mind. I think there could be some interesting potential there tooling wise. Combining a highly dynamic interactive environment with a good staticall…

Wouldn't that be something that the tooling could deal with easily? I don't know if there is anything like that yet, but the last time I took a quick look at Coalton it seemed like…

SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE is also pretty metal function name. Goes nicely with the shout-case too.

Good points. I don't think pairs are a code smell when used reasonably in situations where a pair of two values makes sense, like in your make-hash example. Ideally though I'd like…

I agree that there is maybe too much potential for confusion with that, but is the dot operator (or read syntax?) actually used that much these days? Personally I have mostly somet…

I'm not too fond of adding extra syntax or infix operators to Lisps but I have been thinking lately if maybe some limited form of infix macros could be useful, mainly in binding fo…

>The spaghetti code was astounding, and I remember squeezing line numbers between existing code-- adding a "31 GOTO 40" so I could squeeze a "room" into lines 32-39. I spent too ma…

I could see LLMs being useful as just an UI layer on top of traditional interactive fiction engines? Having a voice-operated IF assistant/narrator paired with tools for note taking…

Although I'm a recovering sexp addict I must confess that I fail to see what makes the cons cell so important to those purer in their faith? To me the homoiconity of Lisp is mainly…

Years ago when I was a bit obsessed about the Holy Grail of a living & breathing CRPG world the approach that seemed most promising to me then was having an expert system style AI …

Interestingly you can also (of course) ask them to complete for System role prompts. Most models I have tried this with seem to have a bit of an confused idea about the exact style…