Subject: Re: why cl packages are hard to use ?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:24:18 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <Zd2dnXy-PKhfsN_UnZ2dnUVZ_jKdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Pascal Costanza  <pc@p-cos.net> wrote:
+---------------
| Rob Warnock wrote:
| > Wow!! That's *really* nasty!!  Worse, now that [RonG has] shown the
| > basic pattern, I find that I can duplicate it *much* more simply:
...
| The wording in the HyperSpec doesn't exactly promote the use of
| unintern as a regular tool to be used extensively in Lisp programs.
+---------------

Yes, well, as the saying goes, it wasn't so much that the pig could
sing well; it was that it could sing at all.

And as long as we're misusing aphorisms: If only fools use UNINTERN,
then it *will* get used, and when you least expect it...


-Rob

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