[Ecls-list] Question #2

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Tobias C. Rittweiler <tcr at freebits.de> wrote:

> LOADing fasls created by earlier versions of ECL into a more current
> version results in _undefined behaviour_. It might work, or might not.

indeed, that has been reported to me several time in the past
(in connection with OpenAxiom.)

> in case it does not
> match, an error would be signalled (ideally one with two restarts: one
> which results in recompilation, the other which forces loading.)

I welcome the idea.  For OpenAxiom (and I suspect many applications
delivered to end-users), the restart would be a nuisance though.

-- Gaby