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[Axiom-developer] Remove postprop.lisp.pamphlet?


From: Waldek Hebisch
Subject: [Axiom-developer] Remove postprop.lisp.pamphlet?
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:04:00 +0200 (CEST)

AFAICS postprop.lisp.pamphlet is unused: it is on list of files
to autoload, but it contains only top-level forms evaluated for
side effects (no variables or functions) so I think there is
no way to trigger autoloading it. Moreover, the data in this
file looks like older copy of data in property.lisp.pamphlet.

IMHO having postprop.lisp.pamphlet in source archive only causes
confusion -- in fact I spent few hours trying to find out how
Lisp property |special| (initialized in postprop.lisp.pamphlet) may be
accesed and finally noticed that Lisp property |special| is unused
and that relevant code uses Lisp property SPECIAL defined in
property.lisp.pamphlet. For better fun Boot code contains data 
structure called propety and there is a Boot property special...

So I think that the best way is to eradicate all traces of
postprop.lisp.pamphlet in current sources (we have version control,
so interested people can look there for obsolete code).

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                              Waldek Hebisch
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