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"home-ifying" symbols
- To: Jon White <JLW@SU-AI.ARPA>
- Subject: "home-ifying" symbols
- From: Rob MacLachlan <RAM@CMU-CS-C.ARPA>
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1985 21:21:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA, gall@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA, moon@SCRC-STONY-BROOK.ARPA
- In-reply-to: Msg of 4 Apr 1985 16:45-EST from Jon White <JLW at SU-AI.ARPA>
I would consider the system very confused if a symbol which
appears to be interned does not print readably when no package system
changes have been made between the printing and the reading. This
could happen if a symbol is not accessible in its home package.
It would be reasonable to allow setf on symbol-package with the
constraint that the new value may only be a package that the symbol is
present in. I have survived until now without this capability, but
won't object to its addition to the language, since opposing any
feature would not be in the spirit of Common Lisp.
Rob