Re: ASDF depends-on / do-first

Kilian Sprotte wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> thanks for your mail! But sorry, may I still ask again,
> what is the difference between :in-order-to and :do-first
> then? Or what is so special about :do-first?

I think it's just the order in which they are processed in TRAVERSE.
in-order-to forms seem to be done before do-first is, but do-first needs
to happen before the actual operation (iiuc).

> I think this comment here is irritating me:
> 
> ;;; XXX crap name
> (do-first :initform nil :initarg :do-first)

Well, it /is/ a crap name (-:

Hope this helps a bit,
-- 
Andreas Fuchs, (http://|im:asf@|mailto:asf@)boinkor.net, antifuchs

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