macro returning more than one form

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Paul Tarvydas <paultarvydas at gmail.com> writes:

> On 14-03-14 12:57 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>
> I'm writing diagram-compilers that emit CL.  It seems to me that each
> emitted lump of code should be in it's own package.  Am I thinking
> about this "wrong"?

Yes.  

Packages are not designed or not practical for fine grained name
scoping. 

Furthermore, packages are used only to _READ_ symbols.  You should not
have any need of them when generating code.  That is, at most, you would
just intern generated symbols in a specific package to avoid poluting
some other package, and you may want to manage the export list of a
public package for the publicly accessible API to your generated code.


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