Re: "compiler" nickname for "sys"

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Hi Sam,

> I want to remove the "compiler" nickname from the "sys" package.
> The cause d'etre for the nickname was the long gone possibility of
> compiling clisp with a different CL.

Yes, the last time it was used was around 1987/88, with KCL as host CL.

> The reason I want to get rid of it is that I am not sure how to
> maintain this separation between "sys" and "compiler" when I need to
> interface the compiler with the rest of clisp, e.g., now for the X3J13
> Cleanup Issue COMPILER-DIAGNOSTICS:USE-HANDLER.
> Do you mind?

No problem with me. I tried to keep things modular and separate, for
maintainability, but in a CL implementation everything is interwoven
with everything (except possibly the bignum implementation :-)).

Bruno