[slime-devel] problem compiling files defining packages

[Lynn Winebarger]

Hi,
    First, I want to thank the developers for this Lisp IDE.  It's very 
cool.  But....
    I was trying to compile a file with C-c M-k, and the file started out

(defpackage "my-package" (:intern <stuff>) (:use "COMMON-LISP"))
(in-package "my-package")

Now, this is my first attempt at compiling a CL file (under SBCL 
0.9.18), with or with a package involved.  And it kept spitting out 
errors for the stuff after these two lines, and I could not for the life 
of me see why.  Clearly it had something to do with the package 
declaration, because when I commented the above two lines out, I was 
able to compile the rest of the file.
    So I drop into a command line SBCL session, and the file compiled 
just fine.

    Anyway, I just wanted to let you know, this was very confusing for a 
CL newbie (been a Schemer for years, just not CL).  It doesn't appear to 
be in the documentation anywhere.  I did find some emails that looked 
vaguely related from the archives of this list using the gmane 
interface, but it wasn't something I could easily understand.

    I'm wondering, as CL developers, how do you get around this issue? 
It seems like it would be a problem.

Thanks,
Lynn