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From: Kevin_Crowston@XV.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: problems with ADVICEs in lyric
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Date: 18 Feb 88 20:08:31 GMT
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SID#: 0208-113
Company Name: MIT/Mass Institute of Technology
Machine Type: 1109
Lisp version:  Lyric

I'm having a little problem with ADVICEs in lyric.  I want to store them
on a file, so I put (ADVICE fn-name) in the FILECOMS.  When I store
the file, however, I do (MAKEFILE file-name '(FAST RC ST)) which
I think reloads the file.  The advice then seems to double (that is, if I
edit the ADVICE, I see that the same ADVICE has been applied twice).
Worse, every time I MAKEFILE the file, I double it again, so after
four or five tries, I get 16 or 32 copies of the ADVICE.  Also, the file
is dirty again immediately after the MAKEFILE, since the ADVICEs
have been changed.

Anyone know a way around this?  I used to do something like

(ADVICE fn-name)
(P (READVISE fn-name))

in Koto, but that doesn't seem to do much better, since the implementation
of ADVISEs is different.  I'm sure there's some new idiom for dealing
with ADVISEs, since it seems unlikely that people simply edit them before
each MAKEFILE, but I haven't been able to guess what it is.

Kevin Crowston
MIT Sloan School of Management