Re: ASDF, readtables and with-operation

Gary King <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Thanks. The problem I'm having is that I have multiple systems.
>> System A is changing the readtable and system B (loaded after A) is
>> smashing into A's changes.
>
> This means that system A is broken/does not play well with others.  It
> should not be modifying the standard readtable.  It should setf
> *readtable* to its own readtable which it obtained by copying the
> standard one.

I agree that A is broken ... it's more likely that I'm just confused.
>
> I also don't get the point of your suggested patch -- why couldn't you
> achieve the same thing with before/after methods?

Operate isn't a method (maybe I'm not understanding you).

thanks,
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