On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 12:49, Raymond Toy wrote:
>
> Is this file really needed, except for declaring a bunch of variables
> as special? Can we just get rid of the function declarations
> completely? The function declarations aren't really useful and hard
> to maintain. And some of them are currently wrong, like MTELL, which
> takes any number of args.
Ah, yes. I was forgetting about this. SYS-DECLAIM and SYS-PROCLAIM are
maintenance nightmares. I think there is a way to automatically generate
the proclaims with GCL, but I don't think that is a standard ANSI CL
feature. If we could automatically generate the declaims, I would say
keep them. As it is, I am in favor of dumping them (and the proclaims as
well.)
--Jim