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In what sense is iterate a fad that was gone? I see 1161 systems in Quicklisp (out of 5499 total) that transitively depend on iterate; so about a fifth of the o

• Jtsummers 2y ago
  Transitive dependencies are a poor indicator of actual utilization. How many direct dependencies are there? For what it's worth, I quit using it since it broke if you ever used the CL function `count` inside an iterate construct. Reportedly it was fixed, but it's still failing to work correctly using the Quicklisp version (just installed CL on and setup QL since it's a new laptop, so it shouldn't be pulling an old version). It was fun for a while, but having to remember "Oh yeah, don't use count" every time I reached for it for something natural was annoying and not worth bothering with.
  • remexre 2y ago
    It has 201 direct dependencies, making it the 9th most directly-depended-on system in Quicklisp, one spot ahead of UIOP. Methodology (yes, I could've stayed in Lisp, but I started by awking systems.txt...): (with-open-file (*standard-output* #p"deps.txt" :direction :output) (iter (for system in (ql:provided-systems t)) (for name = (ql::name system)) (format t "~a ~a~%" (length (ql:who-depends-on name)) name))) $ sort -h deps.txt | tail 200 uiop 201 iterate 206 split-sequence 274 closer-mop 344 cl-glfw-opengl-core 350 bordeaux-threads 387 fiveam 391 cffi 408 cl-ppcre 1006 alexandria