Subject: Re: Packages in CMUCL From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 23:45:54 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3226952770770630@naggum.net> * Nils Goesche <cartan@cartan.de> | Hm. Isn't the idea of lots of REQUIRE's and PROVIDE's hidden all over | the place much more repulsive? From the HyperSpec: | | # If the pathname-list is nil, an implementation-dependent mechanism | # will be invoked in an attempt to load the module named module-name; | | so it doesn't look very portable, either. But this is what makes it portable. How you organize files on a system is not portable, so if you do what require needs on every system, what the single (require :foobar) does is portably ensure that feature :foobar is portably loaded in every system, regardless of how that actually works on each system. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief. Post with compassion: http://home.chello.no/~xyzzy/kitten.jpg