Re: [asdf-devel] Suggested patches for ASDF

On 9/9/11 Sep 9 -2:50 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info mailto:rpgoldman@sift.info> wrote:

I think it is safe (shouldn't interfere with any other implementations
use of ASDF), but this use of *FEATURES* at *run-time* instead of the
conventional use at compile-time makes me feel a little uncomfortable.
It feels to me like an abuse of a facility.

Right now this is how my two compilers expose their presence to their users. I do not see how this could be an abuse and why further variables are needed. Besides, this is ECL's design, not ASDF's.

OK. But why do you need to do

(member :foo *features*)

instead of

#+foo

?

That was the original question.

thanks, r