Re: two small issues

Raymond Toy <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:04:17 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.matlisp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Michael" == mak  <[email protected]> writes:

    Michael> Ray, 
    >> Ok, :matrix and :m are no longer nicknames for the matlisp package.

    Michael> Ouch!  The removal of :M  breaks 99% of my code.  If this is necessary for 
    Michael> the rest of the users, I'll make changes to my code (the script to update
    Michael> my code should be pretty simple).  Else, I'd just as soon :M stay around.

Sorry!  No one had said anything, but perhaps I didn't give enough
time.

I'm not sure what to do.  I think it's bad that matlisp defines such a
short package nickname, along with the rather generic :matrix
nickname.

We could do what Kent Pitman suggested on c.l.l a while back and
change the matlisp package to be net.sourceforge.matlisp or
net.sf.matlisp.  But I think matlisp is sufficiently unique that we
don't have to do that.

Would it be acceptable to you if you just added 

(rename-package "MATLISP" "MATLISP" "M")

in some appropriate startup file of yours?  This will re-establish the
M nickname.

Ray