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List:       sbcl-devel
Subject:    Re: [Sbcl-devel] How abour top-level setf = REPL-lexical variables?
From:       Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus () random-state ! net>
Date:       2009-10-22 14:17:39
Message-ID: 633d72b0910220717j5793f023u447fe447d3cf0d2e () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/10/22 Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus@random-state.net>:
> 2009/10/22 James Y Knight <foom@fuhm.net>:
>
>> (setf a 5)
>> (let ((b (* a 2))) (+ b b))
>>
>> would not result in any warnings.
>
> I at least like the warning: it semiregularly tells me that either I
> mistyped the name of an existing special, or the package is not set up
> the way I thought.

Belatedly it occurs to me that making the warning issued by the REPL
for this less verbose -- say a single WARNING line -- would probably
be acceptable to most? No loss of information, and a lot less noise.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus

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