[Ecls-list] To evaluate or not to evaluate?

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb at informatimago.com
> wrote:

> Loading iolib, (and several other systems such as io.multiplex, etc)
> in ECL signals the following error.
>
> ASDF2 does not evaluate the :pathname argument in DEFSYSTEM forms, but
> it seems these systems expect it to be evaluated.
>

This error message is not from ECL, but from ASDF. I must say that I am very
happy to see it: it means that at least this particular argument in the
system definition has been made purely declarative, not allowing forms that
are to be evaluated and which might be context-dependent.

Juanjo

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