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From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Overwriting Functions/Macros?
Date: 1998/04/01
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* Marco Antoniotti
| As an aside, I see also that using strings in package related functions
| and macros for package names and symbol names is a *good* thing.

  uhm?  why?  using strings interferes with case massaging in the Lisp
  reader.  the only advantage is that no new symbols are created, but using
  uninterned symbols or keywords (for package names) isn't _that_ much
  trouble, is it?

#:Erik
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