Gmane
From: dan <dan <at> telent.net>
Subject: Re: ASDF depends-on / do-first
Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Date: 2007-06-27 13:57:45 GMT (1 year, 3 weeks, 1 day, 15 hours and 4 minutes ago)
Richard M Kreuter wrote:
> I'm guessing that the DO-FIRST slot was either a quick hack or a
> vestigial remnant of something. 

My recollection, all these years later, is that the latter is 
approximately the case: it parallels (or was originally intended to 
parallel) the initially-do and finally-do slots in mk-defsystem (3.x). 
I don't remember ever having actually used it, and with hindsight 
certainly ought to have applied YAGNI.

-dan

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