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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Problems with Lisp Packages
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Date: 1 Mar 89 19:03:36 GMT
References: <117@bosco.dit.upm.es> <36624@think.UUCP> <1519@papaya.bbn.com> <6729@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <6729@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) writes:
>I haven't seen anyone suggest what seems to me the most obvious solution,
>given that you really want to set up the problem as above: simply export
>all of the symbols that you really need. For example:

Maybe because it doesn't solve the problem.  Exporting symbols doesn't
automatically make them accessible anywhere else.  It allows them to
be typed with a single colon instead of a double colon package
delimiter.  And it makes them accessible in other packages that :USE
the original package and don't shadow the exported symbols.


Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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