Re: [Gcl-devel] defpackage non-compliant?

[Camm Maguire]

Hi Paul!

"Paul F. Dietz" <address@hidden> writes:

> Mike Thomas wrote:
> 
> > | 2. GCL does not support the ANSI EVAL-WHEN situations
> > |    :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL, :LOAD-TOPLEVEL, :EXECUTE.
> > |    it should not be hard to make them synonymous with the obsolete
> > |    situations LOAD, COMPILE and EVAL (which is incorrect, strictly
> > |    speaking, but should be a good start).
> > I guess Paul/Camm will likewise be aware of this in the ANSIfication
> > context
> > and one of us will move on it when able.
> 
> Right now I'm more concerned about a problem that's preventing the
> ansi-tests from running at all, having to do with arguments to
> defgeneric.  I tried modifying defgeneric to be closer to
> how it works in CMUCL and SBCL, but I must be missing something
> since it didn't compile properly.
> 

Can you post your patch?

> BTW, I was using (eval-when (load eval compile) ...) in many places
> in ansi-tests to get it to work with gcl.  If we get that working
> (more or less) I can convert all those to non-deprecated forms.
> 

I'll try to take a look at this, but I think the defpackage/in-package
is more important.  Please don't let me forget.

Take care,

>       Paul
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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