From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.ulv.nextra.no!nextra.com!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Why is in-package a macro? Date: 28 Oct 2002 00:57:32 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3244755452388177@naggum.no> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1035766652 7588 129.240.65.5 (28 Oct 2002 00:57:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Oct 2002 00:57:32 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:44840 * Peter Seibel | Just a guess--I'm hoping that when I understand why it's a macro I'll | have increased either my understanding of macros or of Lisp history. It used to be an operator that the evaluator/loader/etc had to recognize specially. It is better to let `eval-when´ be that operator and make `in-package´ be a macro that expands to use it. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.