[slime-devel] Re: New command for starting and loading

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

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

> I committed a patch that loads the current file, not the package.  Is
> that OK?

Sure, that's fine.

> By convention we don't send snippets of CL code to lisp, especially
> not encoded as strings (problematic with non-standard reader syntax).
> The preferred way is to use slime-eval-async or slime-eval and write
> the function in CL directly.

Right.  I experimented briefly with `slime-eval' and got strange
backtraces, so I just did it the "easy" way.  Looking at the
backtrace more closely now, I see that it's looking up the symbols in
the SWANK-IO-PACKAGE package, which explains why
(slime-eval `(load "thing")) didn't work, and you have to prefix the
symbols with their package...

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