Re: SLIME compile and load file REPL stays at "CL-USER" with "(in-package :xyz)" in code and not "XYZ"

Nick Levine <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:12:34 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.slime.devel
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> From: Frederik Cheeseman <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:54:20 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> When I do C-c C-k (SLIME compile/load file) the REPL stays at
> "CL-USER". Shouldn't it switch to "MORSE" because of the
> "(in-package :morse)" code line? 

No (and this applies to CL in general, not just to SLIME). This is
because, according to the spec, "load binds *readtable* and *package*
to the values they held before loading the file." In effect:

(defun load (file &key ...)
  (let ((*package* *package*))
    (in-load file ...)))

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