Re: [cdr-discuss] file-local variables

Nikodemus Siivola wrote:

So the idea is that users can do

(defpackage :foo (:import-from :cl #+sbcl sb-ext :acl :excl #+ccl :ccl #:make-variable-file-local))

and then have FOO::MAKE-VARIABLE-FILE-LOCAL mean the same thing across implementations?

Yeah. This is something one needs to do in several occasions already (for instance to get MOP functions from packages named differently across implementations) and I don't think it's such a big deal.

But still, you raised an interesting and more general idea, which is to decide on a general mechanism for supporting/advertizing CDR features. This could be worth a discussion in another thread maybe.