Package-local nicknames

[Marco Antoniotti]

> On Nov 27, 2015, at 14:34 , Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> long time no see :)
> 
> I'm once again experimenting on ABCL with a sort of a pet peeve of mine: hierarchical symbols (aka symbols as packages aka symbol/package conflation). If I get good results I'll submit an article to the next ELS. Btw, is anyone going?
> 
> I've seen that, since the time when I was actively contributing to it, ABCL has gained package-local nicknames (or, they were already there and I never noticed or I forgot about them). Since my experiment is, I suppose, a superset of what said nicknames have to offer, I'm curious: is anybody using them? How? Are they a novel idea of ABCL's, or were they inspired by other implementations? Do they implement some specification (e.g., a CDR)?


There is no CDR on the topic (want to write one?).  But ACL has had something like that for some time (cfr., http://franz.com/support/documentation/10.0/doc/packages.htm) and, if my neuron is not failing me also SBCL/CMUCL.

I should be able to make it to ELS.

Marco






> 
> Thanks for any input!
> 
> Cheers
> Alessio
> 

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Marco Antoniotti