Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!jeff
From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: answer to eval-when bug in AKCL
Message-ID: <4007@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Jan 91 13:38:25 GMT
References: <127532@linus.mitre.org>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <127532@linus.mitre.org> djb@arnold.mitre.org (David J. Braunegg) writes:
>
>I received a reply from Bill Schelter about my eval-when question:

>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.   

Wouldn't it work better of items were read one at a time, interleaved
with the evaluation of top-level forms, rather than being read all at
once as a vector?  Then the package operations would have happened by
the time they were needed, just as they do when loading source.