quickload: allow thing to be any named thing

[christophejunke]

Hi,

This is a minor problem but I often use system-apropos-list to find the exact name of a system whose name I don't quite remember, or when trying to see if some project is already available on Quicklisp. In such cases, the return value of the function is a list of system objects. I have then to get the name of such a system to quickload it, because passing directly a system is not supported (as far as I know, I'd be interested to know if I am missing a better way to do this).

The patch calls name on the thing being given to quickload, and adds a method for name specializing on string values. That makes this interaction possible:

USER> (system-apropos-list "classo")
(#<QL-DIST:SYSTEM classowary ...> ...)

USER> (quickload (first *))
To load "classowary":
Load 1 ASDF system:
  classowary
; Loading "classowary"

(#<QL-DIST:SYSTEM classowary ...>)

The patch is merely here to discuss this particular problem I had and how I solved it on my machine, feel free to edit it or ignore it.

Thank you

[christophejunke]

If that's a useful I can extend this behavior to other functions that currently expect string designators.