>>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <[email protected]> writes:
Camm> Greetings!
Camm> This is due to a long-standing design bug in the .data format appended
Camm> to the .o file and used to initialize lisp objects on loading compiled
Camm> binaries.
Camm> Referenced lisp symbols are written with out with package prefixes,
and
"with out with"? You mean without?
Camm> stored in a vector, which is unreadable unless the packages exist at
Camm> that time. GCL makes a crude attempt at detecting 'package
operations'
Isn't ok to throw an error if the package doesn't exist? In any case,
if (in-package "FOO") works, doesn't that mean the package must
already exist? I guess maybe there's a problem if you're creating the
package in the same file, but that seems like a very easy workaround:
create the package before using, in a separate file if necessary. I
think that's considered good practice.
Camm> and moving these to the head of the file, which of course is dangerous
Camm> and triggers the warning.
Maxima does this in quite a few places. It seems to work. Perhaps
we're just lucky?
--
Ray
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