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Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] From: Matt Armstrong Subject: Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 10:22:44 -0800 
Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 08 2022, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>> Making it even worse, once BAR:HACK is recorded as the meaning of HACK
>> in FOO's symbol table (obarray), there was no way to make it mean some
>> other symbol HACK.
>
> That's technically wrong: it is possibly to "shadow" inherited symbols.

Yes, Common Lisp apparently grew mitigations for the pitfalls of
:use/use-package after Richard had experience with them.  I do not think
the pitfalls went away, though.

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