[slime-devel] Re: *read-default-float-format* with C-c C-k, , load-system, etc.

[Dirk Gerrits]

Dirk Gerrits <dirk at dirkgerrits.com> writes:

> Luke Gorrie <luke at synap.se> writes:
>
>> Dirk Gerrits <dirk at dirkgerrits.com> writes:
>>
>>> >   (eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute)
>>> >     (setq *read-default-float-format* 'long-float))
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Anyone?  This is really annoying, as it makes C-M-x, C-c C-k and C-x C-e
>>> completely unusable for this project.  (Well unless there just happens
>>> to be no floating point literal in the evaluated code.)
>>
>> This is probably specific to the Lisp implementation. Which are you using?
>>
>> If you're using ACL then you should probably use excl:setq-default
>> instead of setq. Otherwise new threads will use the default instead of
>> what you want.
>>
>> See http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/doc/pages/operators/top-level/setq-default.htm
>
> Sounds plausible.  As I said in my original post however, I'm using SBCL
> with multithreading.  I've been looking in SBCL the manual, but I can't
> find anything similar to setq-default.  As far as I know, setq is the
> correct thing to use for new child threads to inherit the values of
> special variables.  So apparently my setq is not being executed in the
> "root thread"?

Okay I still haven't found a solution, so maybe I should just type
"l0"'s all the time and leave *read-default-float-format* at its default
setting? 

Kind regards, and a happy new year,

Dirk Gerrits