[slime-devel] Re: slime-edit-definition woes

[Luke Gorrie]

Luke Gorrie <luke at synap.se> writes:

> >      #.(clsql:locally-enable-sql-reader-syntax)
> 
> Interesting idiom! And I don't think it will play well with our
> source-path-finder binding *READ-SUPPRESS* to T because this seems to
> prevent #. from having an effect.

In fact it would be very bad without the *READ-SUPPRESS* because then
we might read/eval the 'enable' and then find the definition and stop
before reaching the 'disable', leaving the syntax globally changed.

CMUCL's own debugger will have one or the other of these problems with
it too methinks.

I wonder what Kent Pitman would say about all this..