[slime-devel] Re: problem compiling files defining packages

[Zach Beane]

Lynn Winebarger <owinebar at indiana.edu> writes:

> 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.

What errors do you get? I can't make my system produce an error from
what you wrote above (but I'm not sure what you used for <stuff>).

> It doesn't appear to be in the documentation anywhere.

DEFPACKAGE is documented here:

   http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_defpkg.htm

IN-PACKAGE is documented here:

   http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_in_pkg.htm

Zach