Re: [Sbcl-help] Reload packages

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

On 27 July 2010 13:48, James Fleming <li...@el...> wrote:

>> Isn't 'require equivalent to asdf:load-system in sbcl?

Yes and no. See:

  http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Customization-Hooks-for-Users

SBCL itself does two things with REQUIRE:

 (1) Contrib modules are available using it.

 (2) After ASDF has been loaded, it delegates to ASDF:OOS 'LOAD-OP
     if the named module is known to ASDF.

Over the last few years similarly customizable REQUIRE has been
implemented by some other implementations as well.

I would say that REQUIRE is an excellent tool for REPL work, and even
for local scripting -- but using it in software ment to run on other
people's systems is a bad idea.

For the most part you should disregard the "deprecation" notes in
CLHS: REQUIRE isn't going anywhere, and neither is REMOVE-IF-NOT.
Really.

Neither should you be afraid of using "implementation specific"
functionality, unless you are writing a library intended to run on
multiple implementations.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus