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Re: Issue: PACKAGE-CLUTTER
- To: Scott.Fahlman@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
- Subject: Re: Issue: PACKAGE-CLUTTER
- From: David N Gray <Gray@DSG.csc.ti.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 88 19:40:57 CDT
- Cc: CL-Cleanup@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
- In-reply-to: Msg of Sat, 17 Sep 88 02:02:12 EDT from Scott.Fahlman@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
- Sender: GRAY@Kelvin.csc.ti.com
> Back
> when we all agreed that LISP should export only the symbols mentioned in
> CLtL (or the standard that replaces it), I thought that we also agreed that
> USER was the place where an implementation was allowed to provide its
> default environment. This means CLtL symbols plus whatever other stuff an
> implementation wants to define as extensions: debugging functions, graphics
> stuff, or whatever.
I thought the idea was that the USER package would use the
implementation-dependent package(s), not that the implementation-dependent
features would reside in the USER package.