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From: djb@arnold.mitre.org (David J. Braunegg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: answer to eval-when bug in AKCL
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Date: 3 Jan 91 21:01:00 GMT
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I received a reply from Bill Schelter about my eval-when question:



Date: Thu, 3 Jan 91 11:20:42 -0600
From: wfs@nicolas.ma.utexas.edu (Bill Schelter)


Only certain top level package operations get eval'd BEFORE the read of the 
big constant vector.   Because the make-package is hidden in a conditional
it is not getting read before the constant vector is read.   
Putting all package information in a separate file loaded before your other
files, seems the only portable way of getting things to work in all systems.

In akcl if you did

(in-package "ABC")
(in-package "USER")

It would have been ok.