[Ecls-list] Question #2

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions.net>
writes:

> 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.

How can restarts be nuisances? You mean because users are dropped into
the debugger? In the latter case, you can get rid of that with the newly
introduced *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK*!

  -T.