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[Asdf-devel] Documentation questions about FIND-SYSTEM and LOCATE-SYSTEM
by Robert P. Goldman 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

When following up discussion about bug 1335323, I stumbled across the following paragraph in the manual: When system definitions are loaded from @file{.asd} files, a new scratch package is created for them to load into, so that different systems do not overwrite each others operations. The user may also wish to (and is recommended to) include @code{defpackage} and @code{in-package} forms in his system definition files, however, so that they can be loaded manually if need be. I believe that this is no longer accurate. Fare, you changed to loading everything into ASDF-USER, didn't you? Also, LOCATE-SYSTEM isn't documented at all. I see that it's exposed by interface.lisp, but I'm not sure why it is. If exposed, I'd like to document it, but it looks like an outsider should always use FIND-SYSTEM.

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