[asdf-devel] BUILD-OP

[Stelian Ionescu]

On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 13:40 -0500, Robert P. Goldman wrote:
> I'm a little concerned about making BUILD-OP be the default operation.
> 
> It seems to me that "BUILD" is not a good synonym for "LOAD," which is
> how BUILD-OP is currently interpreted.

I agree.


> I think the conventional interpretation of the word "build" would
> suggest to the user that
> 
> (build "foo-system")
> 
> would compile and NOT load "foo-system," instead of performing LOAD-OP
> as now.  To me "build" does not connote "load."
> 
> Is this just me?  What's the sense of the community?
> 
> Should we use a different term?  I realize that LOAD is taken, and
> shadowing CL:LOAD would be a big PITA.  Is there a synonym we can use?

Not necessarily a PITA. Does any package :use ASDF ? Otherwise you'd get
away with qualifying cl:load in uiop-build/load* and shadowing it in a
few packages.

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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