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Re: Where Pure Common Lisp lives
- To: Steven Haflich <smh@MIT-EMS.ARPA>, snyder%hplsny@HPLABS.ARPA
- Subject: Re: Where Pure Common Lisp lives
- From: David C. Plummer <DCP@SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 86 12:54 EDT
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- In-reply-to: <8605240410.AA02152@mit-ems.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 24 May 86 00:10:06 edt
From: Steven Haflich <smh@mit-ems.ARPA>
> From @SU-AI.ARPA:snyder%hplsny@hplabs.ARPA Fri May 23 11:58:17 1986
>
> Here's an alternative: How about leaving LISP:MAKE-PACKAGE alone, and
> defining LOCAL:MAKE-PACKAGE to default to the LOCAL package?
You'll have to do the same for LISP:IN-PACKAGE, and you'll have to fix
the compiler to give LOCAL:IN-PACKAGE the same special attention it
gives LISP:IN-PACKAGE... It's disturbing how rapidly any hacking of
the package system gets ugly.
It's not in Chapter 11 for nothing...