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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: package question
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Date: 5 Mar 89 00:26:21 GMT
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In article <80300009@p.cs.uiuc.edu> binger@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>In Common Lisp, what is the best way to refer to symbols 
>in a package which does not exist at load-time?

(find-symbol "symbol-name" "package-name")

For instance, if you want to call the function PACKAGE::NAME, you can do:

(funcall (find-symbol "name" "package") args...)

If you want to access it as a variable, you can do:

(symbol-value (find-symbol "name" "package"))

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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