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Re-defining COMMON-LISP symbols
- To: Fahlman@c.cs.cmu.edu, sears%wrs.DEC@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject: Re-defining COMMON-LISP symbols
- From: Guy Steele <gls@Think.COM>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 87 16:09 EDT
- Cc: common-lisp@sail.stanford.edu, gls@think.com
- In-reply-to: <FAHLMAN.12293187110.BABYL@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1987 14:53 EDT
From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@c.cs.cmu.edu>
...
I don't see any question here. MY-PACKAGE:CONS is a different symbol
from LISP:CONS, and you can give it whatever definition you want. This
doesn't even confuse macros, since they deal in symbols and not print
names.
It's sort of like a neutron bomb:
Machines survive fine; only people are confused.
:-) --Q