Subject: Re: emacs lisp help From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 2000/02/15 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3159573708053500@naggum.no> * Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@parades.rm.cnr.it> | I suppose at the reader level, isn't it? well, since the package system is basically a reader-level thing to begin with, naturally, that's where the problems begin, but they don't end there. Emacs is currently so hard-wired on the "one namespace" idea that it is intractable to make FOO:BAR and BAR be _perceived_ to be the same symbol by any code _other_ than the reader, meaning that code that makes its own symbols needs to be made ware of packages, and code that tries to write and read back data needs to be very carefully reviewed. I didn't feel like doing that work. #:Erik