Best Practice for an ASDF Variable Like *compile-file-failure-behaviour*

[Faré]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 7:32 PM, Mark H. David <mhd at yv.org> wrote:
> Actually, I see these lines in the file asdf.lisp in my sbcl distribution
> (SBCL 1.4):
>
>   (defmethod operate :around (operation component &rest keys
>                               &key verbose
>                                 (on-warnings
> *compile-file-warnings-behaviour*)
>                                 (on-failure
> *compile-file-failure-behaviour*))
>
> Could someone please ELI5 how to hook into that for on-failure?
>
These are there for backward compatibility with ASDF 1.
You are of course free to use them, and
I'm in no position to deprecate anything anymore.
But that's not what I would recommend as best practice.

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