[flexichain-devel] .asd file

[Robert Strandh]

Christophe Rhodes writes:
 > 
 > The flexichain .asd file includes an almost-useless package: there are
 > no persistent definitions other than the system itself, so (since asdf
 > arranges for the file to be loaded in a temporary package which uses
 > the ASDF package) there's no need to define and use a -system package.
 > (Packages are surprisingly heavyweight objects, which is why I'm
 > drawing this to your attention).
 > 
 > There's one way in which having a package definition can be useful --
 > for incremental development of the .asd file itself.  However, you can
 > achieve that, if this is one of your goals, with an explicit asdf:
 > prefix to the defsystem symbol.

Done.  Thanks!

-- 
Robert Strandh

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