Tips and Techniques

Tips and Techniques

Overview

The Harlequin web site used to have a knowledgebase containing sample code, workarounds and tips using Harlequin Dylan. I thought this was a great idea so I decided to start a page containing quick tips, techniques and possibly longer articles on how to do things using Dylan.

Tips

The tips are split into areas specific for Gwydion Dylan, Functional Developer and those relating to any Dylan implementation.

General Dylan

Converting characters to integers and back.

Acquiring and releasing resources.

make() and initialize() - What is the difference?

Gwydion Dylan

Installing Gwydion Dylan for Windows

Functional Developer

How to get and install a free Dylan development environment for Windows.

Using <c-string> with FFI calls.

Enabling extended selection on a <table-control>.

Using the Microsoft XML library.

How to expand a macro to see what it generates.

Redefining a method while a program is running.

Which linker? Microsoft or GNU?

Calling Dylan functions from C.

Debugging and the Interactor

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