Re: [Kawa-commonlisp-dev] [PATCH] Type refactoring.

[Per Bothner]

On 10/20/2012 12:49 AM, Helmut Eller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19 2012, Charles Turner wrote:
>
> > I generalised LispLanguage's string2Type into Language. There are now
> > no overrides of this method, it's only fiddled with using the
> > getNamedType hook as explained above.
> >
> > There's probably a much cleaner way of achieving these special cases.
> > I need to think it about it more. Still not very happy with the type
> > handling.
>
> Would it be hard to use Symbols instead of Strings as type names?
> For Common Lisp at least it would be more correct to use symbols.

In principle I think you're right.  However, this cleanup is mostly
focused on the language-independent framework for "built-in" types,
which we can treat as all being in the COMMON-LISP package.  I.e.
this comes *after* normal name resolution (using symbols) fails
to find a match.

So at least for now I think it's ok to not use Symbols *at this
level* - though we may need to revisit later.
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