Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: LISP package external symbols

[Paul F. Dietz]

Robert Boyer wrote:

> > A lisp implementation that is compliant with the ANSI standard needn't have
> > a package named LISP at all.
>
>
> Maybe so.  It's very hard, at least for me, to digest over 1,000 pages, any
> one of which can undermine what is said on any other.
>
> But why, if you are right, is the enumeration of the symbols external to the
> LISP package stated so early, i.e., on page 1-30, among the very first
> concrete technical assertions in the ANSI standard? HyperSpec\Body\sec_1-9.html
>
> I quote from that section of the standard:
>
>    1.9 Symbols in the COMMON-LISP Package
>
>    The figures on the next twelve pages contain a complete enumeration of the
>    978 external symbols in the COMMON-LISP package.


That section is about the COMMON-LISP package, not the LISP package.
These are not required to be the same package!   See the issue
LISP-PACKAGE-NAME:COMMON-LISP in HyperSpec/Issues/iss212-writeup.html

        Paul