[asdf-devel] Tutorial ASDF(?)

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On 20 May 2011 16:18, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:
>
> .asd files should not be loaded directly with cl:load or any shortcut
> that involves cl:load, like cl path/to/whatever.asd. ASDF sets up an
> environment when loading an .asd file that is not the same as the
> environment established by cl:load.
>
> The only way (with which I'm familiar) to properly load an .asd file is
> via asdf:find-system.
>
Indeed.

In recent versions of ASDF, I have factored out of find-system
an internal function
	(asdf::load-sysdef "/path/to/foo.asd")
that does the right thing. But I haven't exported the function so far,
because I believe you should only be loading them via find-system, which
for the longest time had been the only interface to that functionality.
You should certainly never compile-file a .asd file — though I've been
known to C-c C-k some of them at the SLIME REPL and regret it later.

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