Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot and other Lisps

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Gregory Vanuxem wrote:

| > I see your question as suggesting that we should have the translator
| > honor the Lisp convention -- that would be the most logical thing to
| > do.  If people agree, I can add that capability to the translator --
| > and of course, I'll document it :-)
|
| :-)
|
| Not exactly, I'm not suggesting something though rereading my mail it
| seems to be. In fact I asked some thoughts because I don't know how this
| should be handled. I like the idea to add support of Lisp special
| variables (*something*) but on the other hand this is a restriction. You
| have to use $variable or *variable*. Don't know what to do, force the
| user or use a more general way via a declaration.

OK; I believe it is an issue we have to address.  Would you prefer

    _*PACKAGE_* : global             -- Boot, please, *PACKAGE* is global
    callingPackage := _*PACKAGE_*
    -- ... do some work ...
    _*PACKAGE_* := callingPackage

instead?

-- Gaby