Re: ASDF, readtables and with-operation

"Thomas F. Burdick" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/16/07, Gary King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Attila,
>
> 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 also don't get the point of your suggested patch -- why couldn't you
achieve the same thing with before/after methods?

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