I don't see any problem with moving things to whenever they're needed.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 7:36 PM Mark Evenson evenson.not.org@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 1, 2020, at 17:21, Stas Boukarev stassats@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 6:22 PM Mark Evenson evenson.not.org@gmail.com wrote:
Note to all: the abcl.lisp implementation inadvertenly contains a reference to LCONS*.
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Back in 2017 or so, @aruttenburg had a patch to some of move the some of the utlities to load before the implementation-specific, but @stastats objected on the grounds that we want the initial load to be as fast and error free as possible.
I don't remember saying that or follow the logic here.
My apologies for incorrectly paraphrasing your position.
Let me try to restate: the ABCL implementation would like to use some of the machinery from swank.lisp, such as the [lazy list macroization][1]. The changes we requested were admittedly jumbled up in whole bunch of other issues, which we eventually resolved by judicious trimming [2][3]. How could we ensure that SWANK:LCONS* is present when we load the abcl implementation specific code?
-- "No, this is not a disentanglement, but a progressive /knotting-into/."