At 6:51 PM 96.11.26, Eric McCarthy wrote:

> > Loading compiled file (foo.fsl) prints `BAR' while I expect that
> > nothing is printed.  Is this proper behavior?
>
> It looks proper to me.  Why do you think nothing should be printed?

Hi, Eric.

First, I'm using ACL for Win 3.0 (3.0.6a,P kernel w/ no patches)
that I forgot to report.

Well, dpANS(*1) says, and ACL Help summarizes, that top-level
forms are processed by file compiler according to a certail rule
as below:

  CT   LT   EX    MODE   ACTION
  No   No   Yes   NCT    Discard

  CT :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL   MODE  processing mode of the file compiler
  LT :LOAD-TOPLEVEL      NCT   not-compile-time mode
  EX :EXECUTE

File compiler is in the not-compile-time mode initially.
In the case of my prevous mail, the compiler will be encountered
`(EVAL-WHEN (:EXECUTE) ...)' AS A TOP-LEVEL FORM, so that the body
will be ignored, I think.

-Noriyuki

(*1) 3.2.3 File Compilation, page 3-19