Subject: Re: why cl packages are hard to use ?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:57:12 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <NsSdnYd1YdulYNzUnZ2dnUVZ_oPinZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Ron Garret  <rNOSPAMon@flownet.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Note by the way that the Lisp reader can produce some surprising 
| results, e.g.:
| 
| P2[19]> (eq 'baz (read-from-string (format nil "~S" 'baz)))
| T
| P2[20]> (eq 'foo (read-from-string (format nil "~S" 'foo)))
| NIL
| 
| How this can happen is left as an exercise for the reader
| (no pun intended).
+---------------

O.k, I give up. How?!?  [Assuming that those *are* indeed
successive REPL commands with no intervening operations...]


-Rob

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