[Armedbear-devel] defmacro fails in another package

[Stas Boukarev]

bonasso <bonasso at traclabs.com> writes:

> I've never used abcl; I'm an ACL user for over 20 years.
>
> I'm running abcl 1.3.1 on Max OS 10.7.5 (java "1.7.0_45").  My problem
> is I can't seem to define macros in a package other than cl-user.
>
> bash-3.2$ java -jar /usr/local/abcl-bin-1.3.1/abcl.jar
> Armed Bear Common Lisp 1.3.1
> Java 1.7.0_45 Oracle Corporation
> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
> Low-level initialization completed in 0.35 seconds.
> Startup completed in 1.556 seconds.
> Type ":help" for a list of available commands.
> CL-USER(1): (defmacro common-lisp::make-pipe (head tail)
>   "create a pipe by eval'ing head and delaying tail."
>   `(cons ,head #'(lambda () ,tail)))
> COMMON-LISP::MAKE-PIPE
> CL-USER(2): (make-package "foo")
> #<PACKAGE foo>
> CL-USER(3): (in-package "foo")
> #<PACKAGE foo>
> foo(4): (defmacro common-lisp::make-pipe (head tail)
>   "create a pipe by eval'ing head and delaying tail."
>   `(cons ,head #'(lambda () ,tail)))
> #<THREAD "interpreter" {7DA47A7D}>: Debugger invoked on condition of
> type UNBOUND-VARIABLE
>   The variable COMMON-LISP::MAKE-PIPE is unbound.
> Restarts:
>   0: TOP-LEVEL Return to top level.
> [1] foo(5):
>
> Is there some package trick I should know about?
There is, your package doesn't use the CL package, hence nothing from
CL works, including defmacro.

-- 
With best regards, Stas.

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