On 2/26/10 Feb 26 -10:17 AM, james anderson wrote:
good evening;
as an aside, in light of these changes.
? is there some reason that they are not coded to expand at compile time into a second phase of operations in terms of strings. that two-phase method gets the symbols out of the image earlier as they're not needed in fasls. as a side-effect, #: idiom would not be necessary.
I suspect that this may be necessary in order to make this work on ACL in "modern," case-sensitive mode. Using the symbol-name of an uninterned symbol is usually the way I code for portability across mlisp and other lisps.
Note that you can't reliably just do this at compile-time, since you can toggle the case mode in ACL.
best, r
? in terms of self-documentation the "ensure-" terms are unhappy. in several cases the semantics is "-exactly" or "-only" rather than "ensure-".
On 2010-02-26, at 16:17 , Robert Goldman wrote:
On 2/26/10 Feb 26 -9:00 AM, David McClain wrote:
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