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From: raymond@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: (eval-when (load) ...
Message-ID: <1149@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 12 May 89 19:59:54 GMT
References: <8905120156.AA17446@anaconda.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: raymond@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Eric A. Raymond)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
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In article <8905120156.AA17446@anaconda.Stanford.EDU> rit@ANACONDA.STANFORD.EDU (Jean-Francois Rit) writes:
>(eval-when (load) <s-exp>) is equivalent to <s-exp> (i.e. at the top-level of
>a file.

Nope.

This means eval in the environment of a load, but not the environment
of a compile, or eval.




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