Re: Suggested change to ASDF class-for-type

Rahul Jain <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gary King <[email protected]> writes:

> I'd like to propose the change below for ASDF's class-for-type. The
> current implementation (also included below) will break if *package*
> contains the symbol 'module. The new version will only break if it
> contains the class 'module -- the former is more likely than the later.

I think a better solution to the problem is to have :module mean
asdf:module and require 'module or 'whatever instead when referencing a
symbol in one's own package. In general, keywords get interned into the
ASDF package and non-keywords get used as-is.

-- 
Rahul Jain
[email protected]
Professional Software Developer, Amateur Quantum Mechanicist



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