On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 12:27 AM Matt Armstrong <
matt@rfc20.org> wrote:
João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:
> If you're talking about the :USE directive, you don't have to employ
> it: it's not mandatory for CL packages to be immensely better. But
> it's very useful and convenient in specific, well-understood
> situations. If you're talking about something else, I don't know what
> it might me.
My understanding is that Richard is concerned about ambiguities, perhaps
not even flagged as errors at load time, that occurred in a version of
CL packages he implemented or otherwise worked with in the past, but
that may no longer occur in Common Lisp implementations conforming to
the newest standard. I believe he described the "misfeature" he is
concerned about more clearly in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-10/msg02165.html.
There, I think Gerd made the convincing argument that the situation is
acceptable in current CL standards.
Thanks, I read that description, and as far as I can gather, only
USE-PACKAGE vaguely fits that description,
It's an optional feature that shouldn't be used -- much like -rf to rm or
really any flag to any program -- if you one doesn't understand what it does.
It will error and offer restarts if two used packages export symbols with the
same name.
Which reminds me.... I wonder if Gerd's branch also comes with a programmable
interactive restart system :-)
João