Regarding:
>> My advice: ignore user-supplied ftype declaims.
I don't have any problem with that as the default behavior. But I'd
like to be able to override that "ignore" -- that's what I was trying
to say in this part of my reply yesterday (where here I've tried to
eliminate some ambiguity in
Camm,
Thanks a lot for your work on GCL.
My only comment about recompiling policy is that I hope that
the system remains in a safe state by default.
About this,
A final question remains of
whether or not to actually use ftype declaims if provided.
My advice: ignore user-supplied ftype decla
The Franz Lisp system (on the VAX) had a file-compiler feature which allowed
you to
group functions that were (in today's nomenclature) private, and could only
be called
from functions in that file. It was not possible to redefine such internal
functions
without recompiling the file. The externa
