Re: [Kawa-commonlisp-dev] [GSoC] Status

[Helmut Eller]

On Mon, Aug 06 2012, Charles Turner wrote:

> Hey Jamison,
>
> On 6 August 2012 21:53, Jamison Hope <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Aug 6, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Charles Turner wrote:
>> Scala, right? Or are you just eating lots of pasta as you work on the
>> tests? ;-)
>
> :-) -- Helmut pointed me in the direction of this project:
>
> http://homepage1.nifty.com/bmonkey/lisp/sacla/index-en.html
>
> This person has made some really comprehensive tests, so I'm pulling
> them into Kawa. There's a *lot*, so I'm not going for a full port now
> (haven't implemented enough anyway), just for ideas really.

Paul Dietz's ANSI test suite is also worth a look:
http://common-lisp.net/project/ansi-test/

He even wrote a paper about it:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.108.5188

Favorite quote: "A sufficiently smart compiler needs a sufficiently
smart test suite."

Helmut