Re: defsystem & eval

Sam Steingold <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:51:39 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clocc.devel
Organization disorganization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Marco,

> * Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]> [2005-08-16 15:32:40 -0400]:
>
> as a matter of fact this has bugged me for quite some time.

actually, there are quire a few EVALs there - I would rather fix them
all in one shot.

> However, I would be careful to touch it.  Matlisp depends on
> :initially-do and :finally-do.
> If your solution is backward compatible I wouldn't mind at all if you
> fixed it.

it should be.

the obvious solution is to evaluate some DEFSYSTEM arguments at EVAL time.
right now no DEFSYSTEM arguments are evaluated except with an explicit EVAL.

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