Re: Just can't hear enough about Cells?

Ken Tilton wrote:

Which sections of which
docs, examples, and Usenet articles were confusing to you?

I didn't read anything in detail, because it looked not very structured,
even a simple list which macros are available is missing (see
http://www.weitz.de/tbnl/ for an example how a good documentation looks
like). And the first link on http://common-lisp.net/project/cells/ says
something about "the old Cells homepage". This makes me think that there
will be a new homepage, but I didn't found anything.

Ok, lets try it. A good idea would be to install it first, to test how it
works. The README says "Documentation is unfortunately quite lacking; the
cells-devel list is still your best source of information.". I know things
like this from other open source projects, so I'm still not deterred to try
it. The ASDF package loads in LispWorks (I ignore all warnings). I start
testing the "Cell Basics", which looks interesting. I copied the beginning
of the example and got the following error:

Error: Syntactic error in form ((SELF STONE) NEW OLD OLD-BOUND-P):
Illegal function name (SELF STONE).
1 (abort) Return to level 0.
2 Return to top loop level 0.

Type :b for backtrace, :c <option number> to proceed, or :? for other
options

I just wanted to test some Cell code, but it doesn't work. I'm a beginner,
so I don't see a chance for fixing this without studying the source code,
which would be more time consuming than I want to spent, but I'm still not
deterred, I'll try "Bill's Most Excellent Cells Intro". Same error. Ok, now
I'm deterred :-)

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