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From: jsp@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Jeff Prothero)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.x
Subject: autoload
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Date: 19 Nov 90 22:54:38 GMT
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I'd kind of like to have xlisp load in class definitions as needed,
so I can have a large class library available without bogging down
by loading *all* of them at startup.  Looks simple to intercept
a (send xxx :new) and load file xxx.lsp from a directory specified
in, say, the environment variable XLISP-PATH.

Has anyone done this already?  I don't offhand see anything in CLtL:1
or CLOS about this.  PROVIDE and REQUIRE don't seem directly
relevant... Is there a standard syntax for making environment strings
available in lisp?
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     jsp@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Jeff Prothero)
     jsp@u.washington.edu (If above bounces.)
     Biological Structure Graphics Lab, U Washington