Re: [Kawa-commonlisp-dev] [GSoC] Status

[Jamison Hope]

On Aug 11, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Charles Turner wrote:

> Sorry Helmut, I think I finally see what you mean about the circular
> dependency. Ideally DEFMACRO would be in defmacro.lisp using the
> parse-defmacro stuff! :-)

I think his question was more about how we can loadClass(primitives)
in CommonLisp.java if CommonLisp already has to be up and running in
order to *compile* primitives.lisp.

That's (1) why the loadClass() statement is inside of a try/catch, as
it's expected to fail while compiling the compiler (that class does not
yet exist), and (2) why it's better to use the def*StFld() forms  
instead,
which are more like forward declarations -- they say where to find the
named procedure/macro/constant/whatever but don't actually load it until
something else attempts to access it.

I think.

-Jamie

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