[cl-typesetting-devel] Unicode support feedback needed

[Marc Battyani]

"Faré" <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 08/11/05, Dmitriy Ivanov <divanov at aha.ru> wrote:
>> Maybe defconstant-if-none, not sure.
>>
>Actually, the notes from the CMUCL and SBCL compiler say that unless
>the constant is going to be inlined everywhere it's used, it's much
>clever to use defparameter, which avoids what only amounts to waste of
>memory by counter-productive copying. But who am I to tell?
>So maybe have it (define-constant-structure ...) and expand to
>defparameter on CMUCL and SBCL...

If the compilers don't use the fact that it's a constant for optimization
then let's just put a defparameter. It will be simpler.

Marc