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From: sandra%defun.utah.edu@wasatch.UUCP (Sandra J Loosemore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: package question
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Date: 6 Mar 89 21:41:03 GMT
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In article <36977@think.UUCP> barmar@wotan.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) 
writes:

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

This is almost correct.  Some Common Lisp implementations (notably,
HPCL-I) require the "package" argument to FIND-SYMBOL to be a package
and won't accept a package name.  If you really want to be portable,
say

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

-Sandra Loosemore (sandra@cs.utah.edu)