[slime-devel] swank:eval-string in wrong package?

[Helmut Eller]

Peter Seibel <peter at javamonkey.com> writes:

> According to the doc string for SWANK:EVAL-STRING, the string is
> supposed to be read and evaluated in the buffer's package. But because
> SWANK:READ-FORM binds *PACKAGE* to *SWANK-IO-PACKAGE* this doesn't
> seem to happen. Am I missing something?

You are right.  The docstring isn't quite correct.  We could probably
remove one level of printing/reading by passing a form instead of the
string.  We could then rename the function to EVAL-FOR-EMACS.

Helmut.