LOAD-OP definitely compiles the Lisp source and then loads the resulting fasl file. You use LOAD-SOURCE-OP when you only want to load the Lisp source code without compiling it.
bob
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon pjb@informatimago.com wrote:
On 2010-01-23, at 20:13, Robert Brown wrote:
It's confusing me because we already have an operator that functions as "compile and load", namely LOAD-OP.
load-op doesn't compile the files, only loads them. I use it routinely to load files without compiling them in clisp.
Of course, the difference is significative only with implementations that don't compile upon loading.
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