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Re: Query about IN-PACKAGE
- To: Guy.Steele%cmu-cs-a.arpa@csnet-relay.arpa
- Subject: Re: Query about IN-PACKAGE
- From: AS%hp-labs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 1984 13:55:00 -0000
- Cc: AS@csnet-relay.arpa, Common-Lisp@su-ai.arpa
- In-reply-to: Your message of 6-Jul-84
- Source-info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated.
On second reading, I would no longer claim what I said in my previous message,
although the text (pg. 183) probably should make it clearer that the :USE
parameter to IN-PACKAGE defaults to '("LISP") ONLY if the package does not
already exist, and otherwise defaults to NIL. The source of the confusion is
the (conditional) statement that IN-PACKAGE is similar to MAKE-PACKAGE, which
states that "if not supplied, :USE defaults to a list of one package, the LISP
package".
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