Re: ASDF:OPERATE should bind *PACKAGE* and *READTABLE*

Richard M Kreuter <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:20:03 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nikodemus Siivola writes:

> IMO ASDF:OPERATE is sufficiently akin to LOAD and COMPILE-FILE, that
> it too should bind package and readtable. Attached patch does this.
> Unless cries of outrage are heard, I'll merge this soonish.

I agree.  (Out of curiosity, did you find a system in the wild for which
not rebinding those two variables produced undesirable results?)

--
Richard


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