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From: palexand@Intrepid.ece.ukans.edu (Perry Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: package question
Message-ID: <303@Intrepid.ece.ukans.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 89 06:06:36 GMT
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Reply-To: palexand@Intrepid.UUCP (Perry Alexander)
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In article <80300009@p.cs.uiuc.edu> binger@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>In Common Lisp, what is the best way to refer to symbols 
>in a package which does not exist at load-time?

I don't think that this is legal.  Under VAXLisp, to refer to a symbol in
an external package requires the external package to exist at load time.

- Perry
(alexander@tisl.af.mil)