[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: CL packages landed
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: CL packages landed |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:14:04 -0400 |
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
CL packages are the wrong way to implement packages in Lisp.
As I explained in a discussion two years ago, packages implemented
using obarrays (or equivalent) don't work reliably.
We have a much better basis for Lisp packages
in the shorthands mechanism. It only needs to be completed.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: CL packages landed, (continued)