Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Stephen Wilson wrote:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| > Then there is the notion of package, which really is a name space, as
| > defined by the assembly language Lisp.
| 
| Packages in Lisp are not just namespaces. 

Notice I said "name space", not "namespace".

| They are objects (data) with which one can compute with and manipulate.

How does that make it not a name space ?

|  Of course, their
| primary purpose is to provide a home for symbols, and to provide the
| notion of internal/exported symbols.

So? 

| All assembly languages provide access to facilities not available to
| the higher level languages implemented upon them.

And?

-- Gaby