Re: compute-system-path needs a call to string to accept keywords for module-name.

Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:51:37 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clocc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yes.  I know and I did take into account when writing up the thing.  
CLisp is the closest to my proposal.

Marco


On Thursday, Feb 12, 2004, at 08:47 America/New_York, Sam Steingold 
wrote:

>> * Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]> [2004-02-11 18:46:14 -0500]:
>>
>> The crux of the problem is FIND-SYMBOL.  You need to change
>> FIND-SYMBOL and to attach a case-sensitive flag to each package. It
>> ain't perfect, but it's much better than any other solution.
>
> <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/pack-dict.html>:
> MAKE-PACKAGE accepts a keyword argument :CASE-SENSITIVE. Similarly,
> DEFPACKAGE accepts an option :CASE-SENSITIVE. When its value is 
> non-NIL,
> the package will be case sensitive, i.e., the reader will not
> case-convert symbol names before looking them up or creating them in
> this package. The package names are still subject to (READTABLE-CASE
> *READTABLE*), though.
>
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