[flexichain-devel] .asd file

[Christophe Rhodes]

Hi,

The flexichain .asd file includes an almost-useless package: there are
no persistent definitions other than the system itself, so (since asdf
arranges for the file to be loaded in a temporary package which uses
the ASDF package) there's no need to define and use a -system package.
(Packages are surprisingly heavyweight objects, which is why I'm
drawing this to your attention).

There's one way in which having a package definition can be useful --
for incremental development of the .asd file itself.  However, you can
achieve that, if this is one of your goals, with an explicit asdf:
prefix to the defsystem symbol.

Cheers,

Christophe

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