[Armedbear-devel] defmacro fails in another package

[bonasso]

Stas,
Thanks, I had previously tried (use-package "COMMON-LISP") as well as 
(use-package "COMMON-LISP").
Just now I did (use-package "CL") and that worked.
Thanks,
Pete
> 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.
>


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