Re: Very confused about packages.

On 29 Jun 2006 22:08:53 -0700, rsobriquet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx tried to
confuse everyone with this message:


Pillsbury,

Shapiro's book is fantastic.


defpackage "match"
(:shadow boundp substitute))

(in-package "match")


That should be (defpackage "MATCH" ...) and (in-package "MATCH"). I
believe that Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 spend some time discussing the
many different printed representations that symbols possess. (Everyone
runs into this problem).


Or better yet (defpackage :match) or (defpackage #:match), so Lisp
converts it in uppercase for you.

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