On Dec 18, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Marco Antoniotti wrote:

> Gregory Bird wrote:
>> On 12/17/05, *Gary King* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Greg,
>>> Now if I write code that uses this standard-library package I
>>> should have access to all of these libraries right?  Or do I need
>>> to do something else?  Like an export statement in the defpackage
>>> maybe??
>>
>>     The symbols in the used packages are available in the standard-
>>     library package but not in any packages that use standard  
>> library. If
>>     you want the symbols that are from the used packages to be  
>> directly
>>     usable by packages that use standard library (sorry about this
>>     sentence, by the way... sigh), then you need to export them.
>
>       ...
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!  I knew there was something I was missing.
>
> You guys also want to look at the "conduit packages" on tfeb.org.

While also keeping in mind that you don't necessarily want to shove a  
whole Java-sized standard library into a single namespace.

-Peter

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