Re: 2.25.1 - when?

[Bruno H. <ha...@il...>]

Sam writes:
> I have 2 patches pending:
>  - removal of COMMON
>  - full symbol names in FAS & making *package-tasks* handling optional &
>    adding (in-package "COMMON-LISP-USER") in the beginning of each FAS
>    file
> 
> Both are bug fixes - the former ANSI compliance, the latter - the
> creation of un-loadable files (I sent the test case before).
> Can they go in before you release 2.25.1?

The first is not a bug fix. ANSI CL only mandates that the type
COMMON is not exported from the COMMON-LISP package, not that it
doesn't exist somewhere else.

The second will break naive user code, as I explained. Making
*package-tasks* handling optional is good, but full symbol names in
fas files is not.

So neither will go into 2.25.1.

> Another issue, related to the second patch, is maybe adding a warning
> about a missing `in-package' statement in the file being compiled.

Such files are perfectly valid, and beginners should be able to use
COMPILE-FILE without knowing about packages. The warning you would
like to put in is an indication that full symbol names in fas files
are not good.

Bruno