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Well, those responses give me some help. I suppose I risk picking a fight here, but very much doubt that the answer to my question as obvious as some replies seem to imply. For example, asserting that all pathnames abstract away from a physical file system does not jump out at me from the spec. A pa...

I understand generally that a logical pathname abstracts filesystem specific naming and structure. However I am having some grief trying to understand what the function logical-pathname-translations does. I have wandered in circles through the Hyperspec/ANSI standard for CL on this, and am thoroughl...

Well, I have calmed down a bit since I posted the original rant. I am going to check out clbuild, desire, and LibCL. I just can't bear the thought of giving up what CL provides, even if there are difficulties. Aesthetically and functionally CL seems to be what I have been looking for all my life :P....

One of the common beefs about CL is the state of affairs with respect to libraries. I believe the originator of this forum blogged about this. As much as I love CL, I fear that I am coming to the end of my rope with the library mess. I have just spent an hour trying to install allegroserve or portab...

Thanks, Ramarren. The issue write-up is very helpful. I certainly get the drift of what it is intended to do now. Even an implementation-dependent part of the ANSI spec is intended to accomplish something that was in people's head at the time the spec was written. That's what I was puzzled about. I ...

OK, thanks. So it appears, from my experiments, that if one uses WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT and a function is referred to first, but defined later withing the same "unit", no warnings at all are issued. Is that the intention? Just to cut down on system build noise? Or does it *do* something more?

Greetings. I am reading through some interesting example code that uses WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT. I have read the hyperspec definition of this, but it does not really mean anything to me. Nor do the various CL textbooks I have say anything about it. Can someone give a an example/explanation of why one ...

Ok, thanks. Those replies help. I got the symbolic link thing working. I don't know if I should post additional questions on this thread, or a new one. I guess I'll do it here. After the initial simple example, the ASDF manual goes on like this: A more involved example Let's illustrate some more inv...

I have been learning CL for several months now, loving it, and getting along without asdf or equivalent. I find the asdf documentation (from the asdf project page on commonlisp.net), ahem, horrible. (Most of the other material I have, from e.g. Peter Seibel, Paul Graham, etc. is great, so I don't th...

Thanks. Actually, I my question resulted from a serious brain-fart. I should know better than to program and drink at the same time! What I was forgetting was not with how PUSH works, but with how function args are passed. This is pretty basic stuff, and I have actually already learned it. However, ...