Hi Svante,
(Sorry for the slow response... sending to the ASDF list too)
I sympathize with your question: "the most common thing to do with ASDF, why do we make that harder than necessary?" I believe that the answer would have been that ASDF is philosophically based on performing "operations" on "systems" and so it was better (in some, perhaps, Platonic sense) <smile>.
I actually agree with you and think that we should add something like
(load-op <system> &key ...)
to ASDF public interface.
If there isn't a lot of disagreement, I'll do that soon.
thanks for you question,
On May 22, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Svante Carl v. Erichsen wrote:
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Hello!
This is just a little question or request that has perhaps been asked numerous times before.
Why is there no predefined macro for the by far most used asdf user operation?
Instead of (asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op 'my-system), I'd like to just do (asdf:load-sys 'my-system).
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