You’re quoting me out of context. If deterministic by default had no cost associated with it, it would clearly be the desirable choice. But it has a cost associated with it, so this is less clear.
am i right to assume here that the costs we are talking about is merely adding markers to those few already existing defsystem's that depend on leakage, or depend on non-portable (read: random) defaults? because that "it has a cost associated with it" above sounds like some serious pain...
If I failed to convince you that this is the case, and that other people may have other preferences, then I apologize.
reading from this side of the screen your preference seems to be to have change in what you like (new goodies coming from qicklisp), but not in what you don't like (the primary build infrastructure of the entire "community" maturing into something useful). -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.” — Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002)