[slime-devel] CMUCL 20a startup issue

[Derrell Piper]

Yup, that fixed it, thanks!

On Nov 3, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:

> Derrell Piper <ddp at electric-loft.org> writes:
>
>> I promise to crawl back into my cave shortly...
>>
>> CMUCL 20a is barfing in swank-arglists when starting up SLIME from
>> fasls.  It loads fine on the initial compile pass but when it's just
>> loading the swank-arglists fasl, it gets confused somewhere in here
>> (contrib/swank-arglists.lisp):
>>
>> (in-package :swank)
>> 	...
>> (eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute)
>>   (defparameter +lambda-list-keywords+
>>     '(&provided &required &optional &rest &key &any)))
>>
>> (defmacro do-decoded-arglist (decoded-arglist &body clauses)
>>   (assert (loop for clause in clauses
>> 		thereis (member (car clause) +lambda-list-keywords+)))
>>   (flet ((parse-clauses (clauses)
>> 	   (let* ((size    (load-time-value (length +lambda-list-keywords 
>> +)))
>>
>> At first, I assumed this was some sort of bug in CMUCL having to do
>> with package interning and (load-time-value...) although now that  
>> I've
>> read the HyperSpec on (load-time-value...) that's less clear.  The
>> CLHS says that (l-t-v...) is evaluated in a "null lexical  
>> environment"
>> which the glossary says is, "the lexical environment which has no
>> bindings."  And since the current package is bound to *package* what
>> CMUCL is doing would seem to be correct.  As an experiment, I tried
>> adding explicit package qualification to all of the references to
>> +lambda-list-keywords+ and CMUCL still signals the same error.  In
>> other words, CMUCL goes out of it's way to lose the package specifier
>> in (l-t-v...).
>>
>> And yet this code is working in SBCL and Clozure...  Can anyone
>> explain what's broken where any maybe suggest a workaround or a fix?
>> I'll be happy to go report this to CMUCL if need be.  Thanks!
>
> I think that was a mistake on my part. Thanks for the report,
>
>  -T.
>
>
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