12.2 Defining a system

12.2.3 DEFSYSTEM members

The:members keyword todefsystem is used to specify the members of a system. The argument given to:members is a list of strings. A system member is either a file or another system, identified by a name. If a full pathname is given then the functionpathname-name is used to identify the name of the member. Thus, for example, the name of a member expressed as/u/neald/foo.lisp isfoo.

The behavior of any member within a system can be constrained by supplying keyword arguments to the member itself. So, for example, specifying the:source-only keyword ensures that only the source file for that member is ever loaded.