[cl-syntax-sugar-devel] Restructuring the ASD files

[Russ Tyndall]

Howdy again,

I had a bug in the version I submitted, having to do with attempting to
read symbols before their package has been successfully loaded. I could
think of no other way to get around this than using eval, which I have
traditionally shunned.  I am not happy with this solution, and if
someone could suggest a better single file system, than what I have
ginned up for clsql and cl-interpol syntax declarations I would be
appreciative.

Patch attached and thanks in advance for the feedback,
Russ



Russ Tyndall wrote:
> Howdy Attila and Co,
>
> I have been desirous of a package like this for quite a while and
> finally got around to trying out cl-syntax-sugar.  I like it very much,
> so thank you for all your hard work on this front.  My primary reason
> for using this package was to get cl-interpol syntax to be always
> available when I compile or load either through swank or asdf, and was
> very happy to see that you had tackled this.  I also wanted the clsql
> reader syntax to behave in a more standard way and to also be attachable
> to the package we are compiling in.  I did not however, want to compile
> all the available syntaxes that you have created.  To this end I
> restructured the asd files for this project as described below.  I
> wanted to make this patch available to others in case they found it
> useful, as well as get your opinion on this restructuring.  I was unable
> to get all the tests to pass, but the same number of tests fail before
> and after my changes (so I am pretty confident I didn't cause them).
>
> * slim-cl-syntax-sugar loads all the necessary pieces to create a syntax
> and have that work with asdf (and swank if it is loaded)
> * every syntax is now its own system which relies on slim
> * the main cl-syntax-sugar asd now just depends on each of the syntax
> systems and slim
> * created new clsql-syntax and cl-interpol-syntax packages/systems that
> rely on the appropriate dependencies and declare defsyntax for their
> respective syntaxes
>
> Now I can just load the specific syntax I wish to use in my project (eg:
> :depends-on (:cl-interpol-syntax)) and asdf takes care of loading what
> is necessary.
>
> Hope this helps someone,
> Russ Tyndall
>
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