[slime-devel] What is the difference between different ways to evaluate lisp forms?

[Anders Conradi]

Hi,

If I start slime using openmcl 0.14.2-p1 on jaguar (mac os 10.2) I get 
different behaviours that I can't explain when I evaluate lisp forms 
fin different ways.

I get one behaviour when I type C-x C-e after the form in the 
*slime-repl* buffer or when I type the form at the prompt and press 
enter and another behaviour when I type C-x C-e after the form in the 
*inferior-lisp* buffer.

The form in question opens a cocoa-window using a window-controller 
that is supposed to release the window when the window is closed. The 
problem is that the window is only released and deallocated when I 
evaluate the form to open the window from the inferior-lisp buffer by 
typing C-x C-e, not in the other cases.

Could you please give me some hints about the differences in evaluating 
forms in the various ways I described so that I might get to the bottom 
of this annoying bug I have. I have torn my hair out for almost a week 
trying to locate this bug in my code and now I am quite desperate. The 
bug only manifests itself with very particular combinations of the 
lisp-code that drives the gui and the nib-file that defines the gui.

I am sorry if this is off topic but I don't know how else to proceed.

  // Anders