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

If we could wait on this until the git switch is complete (RSN,  
really), I think I'd dance naked in the streets. No, not really. But I  
do think it would be a good thing.

:-)

On Apr 29, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Nikodemus Siivola wrote:

> 2009/4/30 Richard M Kreuter <[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?)
>
> Any system using a CFFI-GROVEL component left the package in whatever
> the CFFI-GROVEL component used -- eg. iolib. The CFFI misbehaviour has
> now been fixed in upstream, but I think ASDF should be robust in the
> face of such issues.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Nikodemus
>
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