Subject: Re: temporarily setting a package From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no> Date: 1998/04/14 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3101578847747413@naggum.no> * Sam Steingold | I do have an in-package in the beginning of the file. conceptually, you should have an IN-PACKAGE in front of every top-level form to ensure that symbols are interned in the right package, and grouping several top-level forms in a single file with one IN-PACKAGE in front of them all is just an optimization. | 1. have a separate file for the reduce fix: a 10 line file? ugh. | 2. put the reduce stuff at the very end of the file: ugly. | 3. have 2 identical in-package in the file: one in the beginning and one | right after reduce: ugly. | is there another way? I'm sorry, but I don't understand what the actual problem is. is this about aesthetics, redundancy, or what? when I build Allegro CL images, I have a whole bunch of files, custom.cl, which only loads other files, which are compiled, including franz-fixes, local-fixes, and local-extensions, as well as a site-init file that tweaks a number of variables and package properties so Allegro CL comes up without any visible CLtL1 compatibility, and some internal stuff that somebody complained about some time ago: that DECLAIM doesn't just expand to PROCLAIM forms within the appropriate EVAL-WHEN. here's how to fix that minor annoyance: (when (eq (excl::function-constant (macro-function 'declaim) 2) 'compiler::compiler-proclaim) (setf (excl::function-constant (macro-function 'declaim) 2) 'proclaim)) I'm just showing this to illuminate why I don't quite understand your point about two IN-PACKAGE forms being ugly... :) #:Erik -- religious cult update in light of new scientific discoveries: "when we cannot go to the comet, the comet must come to us."