[Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom and ANSI GCL

[Waldek Hebisch]

> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Bill Page wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >            From my point of view it is enough that we
> > now have a version of the Axiom source that compiles
> > using GCL in ANSI mode.
> 
> I've read in some of the mails that 
> 
>     (in-package "boottran")
> 
> found in document.in is wrong in ANSI CL.
> 
> Why?
> 

In Ansi Lisp string argument to in-package is case sensitive (as
all other strings).  Normal reader converts symbols to upper case.
So if you want to access boottran::boottocl

you have to write

(in-package "BOOTTRAN")
(boottocl ...)

Writing 

(in-package "boottran")
(boottocl ...)

calls |boottran|::boottocl

BTW: It is intersting to compare sbcl and GCL on:

(make-package "BOOTTRAN")
(in-package "boottran")

Apparently even Ansi GCL stil is does not handle this correctly.

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                              Waldek Hebisch
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