Subject: Re: Legal ANSI comment form?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 24 Aug 2002 04:28:13 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3239152093978834@naggum.no>

* Christopher C. Stacy
| How about just testing *FEATURES* in the SYSDCL (whatever your
| implementation does for that) to make sure that :IGNORE isn't there?
| You won't compile or load on platforms that have defined that feature,
| but at least there will be no mystery.

  How about testing for something you know is there, instead?
  That way, you are actually always safe.

-- 
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

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