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issue PACKAGE-CLUTTER
- To: sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu
- Subject: issue PACKAGE-CLUTTER
- From: Jon L White <jonl@lucid.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 88 12:31:06 PDT
- Cc: cl-cleanup@sail.stanford.edu
- In-reply-to: Sandra J Loosemore's message of Thu, 13 Oct 88 15:36:49 MDT <8810132136.AA19912@defun.utah.edu>
re: . . . Actually, I would be happy
with a simple statement that the implementation must not use any
keywords or external symbols in the Lisp package as indicators on the
property list of any symbol. I don't care if the system puts things ...
I like to plead again to please separate the PACKAGE-CLUTTER issue from
the LISP-SYMBOL-REDEFINITION issue. Walter had a good idea some time
ago to rename PACKAGE-CLUTTER as LISP-PACKAGE-CONTENTS. Larry has said
that he would "group together" related issues like this; but I think the
issue of LISP-PACKAGE-CONTENTS is _critical_ to a portable language,
whereas the issue of LISP-SYMBOL-REDEFINITION simply helps smooth over
some minor irritants. More to the point, the former is at last
non-controversial, while the latter still boils and stews.
-- JonL --