Re: Why :USE sucks in the Common Lisp package system

[Helmut Eller]

On Sun, May 10 2020, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> On Mai 09 2020, Andrea Corallo wrote:
>
>> From your write to me sounds that the real trouble with :USE is that
>> namespace versioning is missing.  Very interesting.
>
> In python or perl, you can control which identifiers to import from a
> module into the current namespace.

Common Lisp also has something similar with, ahem, :IMPORT-FROM or
manually with IMPORT.  But as usual, it's more fun to rant about how
unusable Common Lisp is.

Helmut