Re: EXPORT (was: Re: new version now at Karlsruhe)

[Joachim Schrod <schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>]

Bruno wrote:
> 
> > Btw, does anybody know of a more elegant work-around than
> >     (export (intern "NAME" 'gi) 'gi)
> 
> The DEFPACKAGE macro is meant to solve all those problems that arise
> from putting single EXPORT etc. forms into source files. You have no
> problem if you put the export clause into the DEFPACKAGE form.
> The only ugliness is that you writes string containing the symbol names
> in upper case.

As these forms are actually macro expansions, there is no ugliness as
long as it works. Well, one might argue that the whole macro where I
construct class definitions, method definitions, property lists,
etc., from one macro is butt-ugly, but that's another point. :-)

Thanks for this hint,

	Joachim

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Joachim Schrod			Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany