Re: [named-readtables] in-readtable does not touch swank:*readtable-alist* anymore (#8)
Skimming through that slime-devel thread, it's not clear there is a consensus on whether this is the right approach.
There is consensus about two things: 1. Understanding readtables in SLIME is useful and desired 2. Frobbing made by (in-readtable) is kludgy and potentially harmful. But I'm not sure people understood that the change I suggest is breaking. Currently, once readtable is associated to a package, every file with that package implies that readtable due to record in *readtable-alist*. So it is enough to issue (in-readtable) once in the package and it sticks to that package until changed. After suggested modification to SLIME and NAMED-READATBLES, explicit in-readtable form is required at every file, and also every time we issue in-package form in REPL. We are also free to add records to *readtable-alist* manually. How will user adapt to suggested modifications? Simplest way is to fill *readtable-alist* in his initialization file.
After suggested modification to SLIME and NAMED-READATBLES, explicit in-readtable form is required at every file
in my understanding that has always been the published API/contract of IN-READTABLE.
and also every time we issue in-package form in REPL.
again, in my understanding IN-READTABLE and IN-PACKAGE were meant to be independent. it's only a kludge that the implementation was intertwined for a while, because proper implementation required slime supporting IN-READTABLE similar to how it supports IN-PACKAGE. no one got to implement it before you, so the *READTABLE-ALIST* based kludge made things work good enough for the time being. i think catering for user code that relied on the sideffect of that kludge is not a priority. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.” — Alice Miller (1923–2010)
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