On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Stephen Wilson wrote: | Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
