So while I'm waiting for the fuss^Wdiscussion about (VECTOR NIL)to die down on comp.lang.lisp, here's a new version of CLX.

"What is CLX?", I hear you cry. CLX is, roughly speaking, Xlib for Lisp. It is an implementation of the client-side of the X protocol. So, why "roughly speaking", then? Well, mostly because by all accounts programming for raw Xlib is extremely painful, whereas the macrology of Common Lisp allows syntactical abstractions to be built, allowing for ease of development.

For instance, the WITH-BUFFER-REQUEST macro allows for rapid implementation of extensions to the X protocol. In fairly short order, we have acquired implementations of the SHAPE, RENDER and XVidModeExtension (sic) extensions, so we can make Lisp applications just as pretty as their counterparts.