[developers] [spr31181] closure change in ACL 8.0 (from 6.2)?

[Stephan Oepen]

david, my apologies for the (very) long response time!

> I wanted to get a sense for how much you would like a patch for the
> closure problem you sent in.  (I provided a workaround in an earlier
> message, where apparently overeager defstruct optimizations were not
> done.)  This kind of fix may involve some not insignificant amount of
> work and the compiler developers are always busy.  An indication of
> its importance to you would be helpful is scheduling things.

i belive this is not much of an issue to us.  i changed our code when i
first discovered the change in behavior.  i reported this mainly to (a)
get an opinion on whether my code was legal ANSI Common-Lisp and (b) to
suggest this change from 7.0 to 8.0 be documented.  many thanks for the
quick follow-up on my report!

--- if i had a choice, i think someone working on our long-standing and
actually crippling CLIM issues ([spr30363] and [spr30570]) will have a
much bigger impact on our work.

                                                       all best  -  oe

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