On Mar 2, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>>> "Marco" == Marco Antoniotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marco> However, I must raise the issue: REQUIRE is deprecated. > If there is > > Deprecated doesn't mean you can't use it. It just means it might go > away in the mythical next version of ANSI CL. > > But that doesn't mean cmucl can't use require however it wants to in > its own code. Ok. > > Marco> some magic that went into REQUIRE in order to do away with > package > Marco> locks, it should be put into LOAD as well. > > Well, that would defeat the purpose of package locks. If you don't > want to use require, I think something like > > (without-package-locks > (load "library:subsystems/gray-streams-library")) > > will do the trick. Fine. In any case there is the issue of the non-working restart. > > However we may also want to think about whether we want require to > disable package locks. In general, we probably don't want that, > except when we're requiring our own special packages like > gray-streams, clx, clm, or hemlock. I agree that in general we do not want that. Cheers -- Marco Antoniotti http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu NYU Courant Bioinformatics Group tel. +1 - 212 - 998 3488 715 Broadway 10th FL fax. +1 - 212 - 998 3484 New York, NY, 10003, U.S.A.
