Proper behavior of slot-initforms in defstruct?

[Jean-Claude Beaudoin]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Kenneth Tilton <ken at tiltontec.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:55 AM, Jean-Claude Beaudoin <
> jean.claude.beaudoin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Peter Stirling <
>> peter at pjstirling.plus.com> wrote:
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>>> My read of the spec is that either behaviour is allowable.
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>> The two behaviors are so different that I have a hard time accepting this.
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> The issue is not the degree of behavior difference, the issue is the
> degree to which the language of the spec constrains an implementor.
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> Did Peter miss this, or am I missing something completely (I am just a
> simple application programmer): "The slot default init forms are evaluated
> in the lexical environment in which the defstruct form itself appears and
> in the dynamic environment in which the call to the constructor function
> appears.
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It seems that Peter and I both missed it somehow. That clears the issue
pretty clearly;
clisp wins and all the others, well...

Thank you very much Ken for pointing this key sentence.

Case closed.
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