22 Sep
2016
22 Sep
'16
7:04 p.m.
On 9/22/16 Sep 22 -1:56 PM, Stelian Ionescu wrote:
The comments in the file say that we *must* use load-asdf to load a .asd file, but not *WHY* we must do so.
Why is this necessary?
Because asdf:load-asdf sets up the correct evaluation environment, including setting the correct *package*.
OK, again, if this is required, why don't we ENFORCE it?
It would be trivial to bind a special variable around the body of LOAD-ASD, and put something in DEFSYSTEM that will raise an INTELLIGIBLE error if that variable is not so bound
(error "Do not load an ASDF system definition outside of ASDF:LOAD-ASD")
Otherwise, we are just encouraging programmers to shoot themselves in the foot.
I will put in place such a check.