Re: defsystem & eval

On Aug 16, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Sam Steingold wrote:

> 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.

Yes.  That would fix it.  However, I think this is not an easy task to 
pull off.  If you try it, please create a branch before merging the 
changes in.

Cheers
--
Marco
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