Hi,
Is there a way to create an empty package and then later (import? intern?) the
symbol COMMON-LISP:NIL into it?
The following has the behavior that I want, except that I have to import NIL
when the package is created.
(defpackage "FOO" (:use) (:import-from "COMMON-LISP" "NIL"))
(in-package "FOO")
In particular, now the following produces COMMON-LISP:T, as desired:
(LISP::equal (LISP::symbolp 3) nil)
But I seem to be having trouble with using "import" to do the same thing. For
example, when I write:
(defpackage "FOO" (:use))
(in-package "FOO")
(LISP::import 'COMMON-LISP::nil)
Then (LISP::symbol-package 'nil) returns the FOO package (I had hoped it would
return the COMMON-LISP package), and when I write (LISP::equal (LISP::symbolp
3)
'nil), it returns COMMON-LISP:NIL (I had hoped it would return COMMON-LISP:T).
Thanks, and sorry for the silly question. I don't understand the CL package
system very well.
Jared
