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Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages

On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 3:13 AM Richard Stallman <

rms@gnu.org

> wrote:

> If CL packages still have the misfeature of searching a list of

> packages for one that has a symbol 'foobar' in it, and deciding

> what `foobar' in your code means based on that,

> then they are inexcusable bad design and we must not implement them.

>

> If they no longer have that misfeature, maybe they are ok.

If you're talking about the :USE directive, you don't have to employ it: it's not

mandatory for CL packages to be immensely better. But it's very useful  and

convenient in specific, well-understood situations.  If you're talking about

something else, I don't know what it might me.

João



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