Subject: Re: howto string->symbol From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 2000/04/05 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3163935044643945@naggum.no> * kp gores <gores@sip.medizin.uni-ulm.de> | well, i didn't test it. but i thought that pack A using pack B knows | about only the (external) symbols of B existing at the time of using and | not later created symbols. as I suspected, but I am curious, from an educational vantage point -- it's an odd assumption to make, in my view, and I wonder how you came to think this way. here's how I think: when you let a package use another package, you refer to the package, as opposed to the symbols of the package with, say, a use-package-symbols operator, which is what import does, essentially. my goal is to find out how to explain the difference between import and use-package very succinctly. it is not enough to argue that the name "use-package" is sufficient, unless one also argues that people pay _real_ good attention to the names, but whether that is feasible or not is the underlying concern. #:Erik