Quesstion about Alt-. navigation to function definitions

[Jeffrey Cunningham]

On 10/30/2013 04:52 PM, Zach Beane wrote:
> Jeffrey Cunningham <jeffrey at jkcunningham.com> writes:
>
>> But what about the very common (for me, at least) case where I want to
>> experiment around with some code that is not intended to go in a
>> package.
> One option is to learn a different way. I start almost every experiment
> with the three-file system of foo.asd, package.lisp, and foo.lisp, which
> makes it and its dependencies trivially quickloadable. And the
> experiments often grow into something I want to save for easy reuse.
>
>

I'm fine with learning a different way. Actually, I experimented with 
your quickproject utility when you first released it. I like the idea of 
it. But the single significant drawback for me is that it seems to 
require project files to be located to suit the needs of the tool rather 
than the needs of (for me) the work. If I'm contracting for companyX 
their files all go somewhere within a companyX folder. Their data goes 
there. Their docs. Everything. I can tarball the whole thing up and send 
it to them. I can archive it. I can send it to Richard Snowden. 
Whatever. It seems to me that the requirements of the package 
methodology you are suggesting requires that I either do my contract 
work in subdirectories of the quicklisp folder of some other standard 
ASD visible folder, or be continually modifying the ASD paths so the 
loader knows where to find them. Maybe I haven't just wrapped my head 
around it right, but it seems odd to have to build a package just to 
load some other packages and use them.

I agree that many, many times what started out experimental developed 
into a package I've reused for other projects. I think if I could figure 
out how to keep files organized by job rather than by tool I'd be all 
for your idea.

--Jeff
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