Subject: Re: temporarily setting a package
From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no>
Date: 1998/04/14
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3101569670405139@naggum.no>


* Sam Steingold
| I am highly reluctant to have yet another file.  I have a special file
| with a bunch of system-specific stuff, like your reduce code,
| *gc-verbose* for CMUCL, *warn-on-floating-point-contagion* for CLISP etc.
| So, I guess, I should have asked about how to have your code in a file
| with a lot of other junk.  Obviously, I can put it as the very last
| statement (right?), but I don't like it.

  I fail to understand the charm of loading a file that could place symbols
  and function definition into whatever package happens to be the value of
  *PACKAGE* at the time of loading.  why not always use IN-PACKAGE to make
  sure you get all the stuff int the right packages?  IN-PACKAGE can be
  repeated in a file, since it affects the reader's behavior after it has
  been evaluated.

#:Erik
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