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Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:39:30 -0500 (CDT) |
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Stephen Wilson wrote:
| Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
|
| > Then there is the notion of package, which really is a name space, as
| > defined by the assembly language Lisp.
|
| Packages in Lisp are not just namespaces.
Notice I said "name space", not "namespace".
| They are objects (data) with which one can compute with and manipulate.
How does that make it not a name space ?
| Of course, their
| primary purpose is to provide a home for symbols, and to provide the
| notion of internal/exported symbols.
So?
| All assembly languages provide access to facilities not available to
| the higher level languages implemented upon them.
And?
-- Gaby
- [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax, Stephen Wilson, 2007/06/05
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/06/05
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax, Stephen Wilson, 2007/06/05
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/06/05
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax, Stephen Wilson, 2007/06/05
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/06/05
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax, Stephen Wilson, 2007/06/05
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/06/05
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot/SPAD package syntax, Stephen Wilson, 2007/06/05