hmmm... On 2010-02-26, at 17:42 , Robert Goldman wrote:
> On 2/26/10 Feb 26 -10:17 AM, james anderson wrote: >> good evening; >> >> as an aside, in light of these changes. >> >> ? is there some reason that they are not coded to expand at compile >> time into a second phase of operations in terms of strings. >> that two-phase method gets the symbols out of the image earlier as >> they're not needed in fasls. as a side-effect, #: idiom would not be >> necessary. > > I suspect that this may be necessary in order to make this work on ACL > in "modern," case-sensitive mode. Using the symbol-name of an > uninterned symbol is usually the way I code for portability across > mlisp > and other lisps. > > Note that you can't reliably just do this at compile-time, since > you can > toggle the case mode in ACL. you mean, you actually build with one case mode and load into a lisp which is runnign with another. and the fasl loader adjust the symbol names? i have used "modern" acl's but, yes, that order of pain never occurred to me. when life gets boring, does one toggle the case-mode of running production systems? _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
