Re: Some more questions about defsystem modules

On 4/27/26 2:06 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:

> On 4/27/26 12:42 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 10:30 AM Raymond Toy<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> According to maxima.system, we still compile and load sloop.lisp. But I think the last use of sloop was removed many, many years ago? Can we remove that from the defsystem?
>>>
>>> Likewise, gcl includes optimize.lisp. Do we still need this? I guess it’s telling gcl to optimize (inline) some simple operations. I’m not familiar with this. Maybe leave it?
>>>
>>> At the very beginning we have a gcl module named proclaim that just loads (no compiling) a bunch of files. Not sure why this needs to be done. Couldn’t find any notes on this, but I didn’t look very hard.
>> Assuming that SLOOP was successfully expunged (some years ago), I
>> think it's OK to remove sloop.lisp. I suppose there might possibly be
>> some user code somewhere which uses SLOOP. If so we will hear about
>> it. I am inclined to say that any code still using SLOOP is the
>> author's responsibility at this point.
> My thinking right now was to remove it from defsystem and move 
> sloop.lisp to share or something so that some it’s still available in 
> case anyone wants it.

Done. sloop is now in share/utils.

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