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> yet there is no standard way to open a TCP socket. The 'standard way' to create a TCP client socket in Clojure: (java.net.Socket. ^String host (int port

• pjlegato 10y ago
  Yes. That's the point. The one standard way to open a TCP socket is with java.net.Socket. Common Lisp, on the other hand, has no such standard way, as TCP was not common when it was designed. It relies on a hodgepodge of poorly documented third party libraries, or vendor-specific extensions to do this. Clojure is, by definition, a JVM hosted language. The .net version is non-canonical.
  • lispm 10y ago
    ^> The one standard way to open a TCP socket is with java.net.Socket. So Clojure the language has no documented standard way to open a socket. One has to use the host environment (JVM, .net, ...) interface to do so. It means also that Clojure/JVM source code trying to open a socket will not run on Clojure/CLR without changes. That's not a 'standard'. It's the definition of 'implementation specific'. That's different from SBCL, which has a documented and maintained way to create sockets, which works similar over all the platforms it runs on - natively. http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Networking http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Networking For a portable way to create sockets over many Common Lisp implementations use usocket: https://common-lisp.net/project/usocket/ https://common-lisp.net/project/usocket/