Re: Loading external packages in Common Lisp with SLIME on Debian

On Sat, 12 May 2012, Nikodemus Siivola wrote:

> On 11 May 2012 09:22, Faheem Mitha <faheem <at> faheem.info> wrote:
>
>> However, I've no idea what these magical incantations do. Would anyone
>> care to explain, perhaps in another answer? I'm putting this in an answer,
>> because it is an answer to the question, but it is not complete, because I
>
> Normally, LOAD executes code, and COMPILE-FILE only compiles it.
> EVAL-WHEN can be used to force evaluation to happen at compile-time.
>
> REQUIRE is one way to load dependencies. ASDF:OOS 'ASDF-LOAD:OP is
> another way to say ASDF:LOAD-SYSTEM, which in turn is another way to
> load dependencies.
>
> http://gigamonkeys.com/book/ is a good book to read.

Hi Nikodemus,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I found a section on EVAL-WHEN in PCL. Also, 
Rainer Joswig provided a helpful response to my SO question. So, I now 
have an idea what is going on.

                                                        Regards, Faheem

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