Myriam Abramson <········@osf1.gmu.edu> writes:
> Hi!
>
> How do I indicate to the load function to compile the file if
> necessary? Very useful feature ...
>
> (a) in allegro
> (b) in clisp
> (c) in cmucl
You can do it portably by writing your own function.
I'm not going to do it for you, but you should check out these functions
which are useful in writing it:
COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
PROBE-FILE
FILE-WRITE-DATE
COMPILE-FILE
LOAD
It won't hurt to know about IF, and > and < and a few others too,
of course. ;-)