On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM Scott L. Burson <Scott@sympoiesis.com> wrote:
Why use ASDF? It's a 2-liner in CL:
(dolist (f (directory ".../data/")) (load f))
This use of directory is not portable at all, unlike uiop:directory-files (UIOP being part of ASDF). Also, ASDF will load your files once and only once as needed, enforce load dependency order both ways, and integrate with the rest of your build and other related tools. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org “Faré's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently useful CL build system is an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow non-portable implementation of a fraction of ASDF much larger than what it takes to just use ASDF.” [Including ASDF]