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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Interned Symbols and GC
Date: 2000/02/09
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* Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
| when foo:bar (which calls read) is called from the package zot, it
| internes in zot.  I wish I could control where the symbols are
| interned.  (e.g., with *read-intern* which can be NIL for no interning,
| T for interning in *package* and a package to intern in that package).

  this makes _zero_ sense.  you're not calling functions "from" any
  packages in Common Lisp.  the default package used by INTERN is the value
  of *PACKAGE*, and READ doesn't do anything magical in the absence of a
  package specification, so if you want to control the package into which
  INTERN interns symbols, justbind *PACKAGE* to that package.

  what more control do you want?

#:Erik