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

[Peter Seibel]

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

> Peter Seibel <peter at javamonkey.com> writes:
>
>> That makes sense to me. Though it seems like it might be nice for
>> INTERACTIVE-EVAL to take an optional package name so one can send
>> this:
>> 
>>   "(:emacs-rex (swank::interactive-eval \"(foo bar baz)\" :some-package-name) nil t 477)"
>> 
>> And have the READ of "(foo bar baz)" happen in the package
>> SOME-PACKAGE-NAME instead of *BUFFER-PACKAGE* (or in cases where there
>> is no *BUFFER-PACKAGE*)
>> 
>> > If you need to READ in a particular package, you can use the same
>> > approach as we do for INTERACTIVE-EVAL.
>> 
>> You lost me there. It looks like it just uses *BUFFER-PACKAGE*.
>
> You value of *BUFFER-PACKAGE* is derived from the package attribute
> in the :emacs-rex event. It was nil in the example, which means
> "take the current *package*". You can pass the package name to
> slime-rex (or slime-eval). I'd say you need a *BUFFER-PACKAGE* and
> another package write a should write a special function for that.

Ah. Missed that. Okay.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      peter at javamonkey.com

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