[slime-devel] Re: Better solution to redefinition warnings in Allegro

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:11:39 -0700, Peter Seibel <peter at javamonkey.com> said:

  Peter> Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

  >>> You mean because we always pass a directory argument, even if its
  >>> only NIL and thus the will never happen? I guess I should just bind
  >>> *default-pathname-defaults* to (if directory (merge-pathnames
  >>> (pathname directory)) *default-pathname-defaults*) and take the
  >>> default value of the directory parameter.
  >> 
  >> Yes, that should work.  You could also pass the buffer-file-name and
  >> bind it, appropriately parsed, to *default-pathname-defaults*.

  Peter> Okay, so I started making the changes to the othe swank-*.lisp files.
  Peter> But I couldn't decide whether I should bind
  Peter> *default-pathname-defaults* in them (when there's no particular reason
  Peter> to) in order to be consistent with swank-allegro.lisp and to do
  Peter> something with the argument. Or should I just (declare (ignore
  Peter> directory))?

In my experience, almost all bindings of *default-pathname-defaults* are a
mistake anyway, so I would say no.

__Martin