Fare, I wonder, why ironclad fails with your patch. I have checked the source, ironclad.asd creates new *ironclad-readtable* and binds cl:*readable* to it in the :around method for compile-op (like a home-made around hook)
So, it looks like ironclad does not modify any global behavior. What your patch does? PS. My opinion. I would never write a library which modifies global *readtable* during load, it's of course a bad style (when ASDF around hooks provide an easy instrument for my code to use custom readtable without affecting global readtable) Should ASDF fail the libraries which modify global readtable - I doubt it's ASDF role. Should ASDF provide libraries with clean readtable when they are build - seems like a good service, so doesn't matter what I did in REPL, (ql:quickload :any-library) always works the same way. But I am not sure 100%, this is a complex issue, more intensive consideration is needed. It's rational to collect the information we already have into a ticket, and consider it more detailed when other currently active issues are closed, as Robert suggests. Best regards, - Anton
