[Ecls-list] EXT vs SI in APROPOS results

Matthew Mondor mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net
Mon Jul 18 14:24:20 UTC 2011


On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:15:54 +0200
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:

> The SI package is not going to be empty. The functions in SI do exist and
> might be used, but are not intended for public use -- they are not stable in
> the sense of future-proof. SBCL also has internal packages and their output
> is shown in APROPOS. Would you vote for hiding those results?

I was not aware that EXT was considered a stable interface wheareas SI
wasn't, I thought SI was only a historical alias for EXT, and that
using either was at one's own risk.  I think that it's fine for both to
be shown, then.

Thanks for the explanation,
-- 
Matt




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