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From: john@LINUS.MITRE.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.lang.clos
Subject: Re: CLOS SAVE OBJECT
Message-ID: <9105071416.AA05753@thelonius.mitre.org>
Date: 7 May 91 14:16:57 GMT
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Is there some reason this stuff doesn't use MAKE-LOAD-FORM et al, as
defined in CLtL2?  The use of the two facilities is essentially the
same, except that MAKE-LOAD-FORM handles circularities, and allows the
user to extend the facility, for example, to deal with user-defined
metaclasses.

Also, given that CL compilers must handle "similarity as constants",
as defined in CLtL2, this functionality can be implemented completely
portably with a small amount of code.