Re: [Sbcl-help] Loading external packages in Common Lisp with SLIME on Debian

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

On 11 May 2012 09:22, Faheem Mitha <fa...@fa...> wrote:

> However, I've no idea what these magical incantations do. Would anyone
> care to explain, perhaps in another answer? I'm putting this in an answer,
> because it is an answer to the question, but it is not complete, because I

Normally, LOAD executes code, and COMPILE-FILE only compiles it.
EVAL-WHEN can be used to force evaluation to happen at compile-time.

REQUIRE is one way to load dependencies. ASDF:OOS 'ASDF-LOAD:OP is
another way to say ASDF:LOAD-SYSTEM, which in turn is another way to
load dependencies.

http://gigamonkeys.com/book/ is a good book to read.

Cheers,

 -- nikodemus