[slime-devel] Re: requiring swank after loading slime gives a type error in sbcl-1.0.14

[Matthew D.Swank]

Matthew Swank <akopa.gmane.poster <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Observe:
> 
> ; SLIME 2008-02-10
> STYLE-WARNING:
>    redefining EMACS-INSPECT (#<BUILT-IN-CLASS FUNCTION>) in DEFMETHOD
> CL-USER> (require :swank)
> 
> ...
> 
> debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR: *PACKAGE* can't be a deleted package:
> *PACKAGE* has been reset to #<PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP-USER">.
> 


The reason this matters (to me at least), is that it makes Stefil impossible to
use for interactive testing as Stefil expects that:
    1. I am interacting with my lisp using slime.
    2. It can include swank and a system dependency.

I am a little surprised that no one else reported a problem.

Matt