Rainer Joswig  <joswig@lisp.de> wrote:
+---------------
|  "metaperl.com" <metaperl@gmail.com> wrote:
| > the defpackage is here in the main load.lsp of my program:
| > http://hg.metaperl.com/redick?f=bfb6548f1b98;file=lisp/load.lsp;style=gitweb
| 
| Symbols in Common Lisp are UPPER CASE by default.
| See the result of (symbol-name 'cl:floor)
|    ? (symbol-name 'cl:floor)
|    "FLOOR"
| So, in DEFPACKAGE, EXPORT etc. you need to upcase those strings which
| are symbol names.
+---------------

Or use uninterned symbols, as a number of us lazy folks do...  ;-}

    (defpackage :redick
      (:use :common-lisp)
      (:shadow #:floor)
      (:export #:double #:floor) 
      ...[trimmed]...)


-Rob

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