[slime-devel] Re: Losing Connection?

[Nikodemus Siivola]

"David J. Neu" <djneu at att.net> writes:

> Actually, I'm having difficulty describing exactly what is going on
> here, but ...
>
> I'll be using slime 2.0 with sbcl-0.9.16, on FreeBSD just fine for
> awhile, when I start getting funny errors, e.g.
>
> CL-USER> (compile-file "myfile.lisp")
>
> Throws me into the debugger with:
>
> The function compile-file is undefined.
>    [Condition of type UNDEFINED-FUNCTION]

Note the case of "compile-file" in the error message in contrast to
UNDEFINED-FUNCTION.

You have code somewhere that sets readtable-case to :preserve or
:downcase.

Cheers,

  -- Nikodemus              Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
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