Structuring Large Projects

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Introduction

• What is a protocol? bring link from Eclector and CLIM docs and maybe even quote it
• What is a module?
• What is a package. Sample of CL-USER package which is so large and how it's different from say java and python where a file is a semantic unit in the code, whereas in lisp it is not really relevant, files are more for us to read and organize code, but not semantically meaningful
• Note about CLOS how it's data representation and not encapsulation (contrast in a collapsible with java)

How To Do It

Examples

• Cluffer
  • add discussion here with other sample asd files, and how they declare all packages and classes etc each in their own files
  • cluffer-base.asd
    • packages.lisp
    • internal-protocol.lisp
  • cluffer-standard-line.asd
• What other projects? see irc logs...