Re: Patch for finding the truename.

Gary King <[email protected]> writes:

> AFAIK, *load-truename* is only valid when a file is being loaded. This
> function attempts to be accurate even in a buffer -- although at this
> point that is only true for Digitool's MCL. To my mind, this is very
> handy when defining systems interactively when the other choice would
> be to continually save and load the system definition file.

Despite being in general no great fan of #+ in supposedly portable
code, I think I like the intent of this one.  I have some reservation
about the wisdom or otherwise of reevaluating defsystem forms without
reloading the complete file, but can't offhand remember why, and it
might very well be for exactly this reason: viz. that *load-pathname*
is not available so components will otherwise end up with the wrong
directories.  If we can fix this for MCL, that's probably a good
thing.


-dan

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