Re: ANSI question (load evaluation order)

Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> CLHS says clearly that:
>
> defun is not required to perform any compile-time side effects. In
> particular, defun does not make the function definition available at
> compile time. An implementation may choose to store information about
> the function for the purposes of compile-time error-checking (such as
> checking the number of arguments on calls), or to enable the function
> to be expanded inline.

As much as I see the problem lies not at compile-time (COMPILE-FILE works),
but at load-time.

Nicolas.
.

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