Packages are over-rated. We lived (and suffered) with packages for months and when I finally rolled everything up into one package it presented zero problems and ended a steady stream of problems. As one Lisp venerable said, "It was a package problem. It is always a package problem."
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Alessio Stalla <alessiosta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to run a little poll among experienced Lisp developers. The topic > is the usage in the wild of the extensions to the package system provided > by various implementations. My apologies to people who are subscribed to > the ABCL mailing list, where some time ago I submitted the same questions > getting back several insightful answers but no actual data. > > So, here is how it is. I'm working on a novel idea (I hope) regarding > symbols and packages; I won't go into the details now. It suffices to say > that there is some overlap with features offered by certain Lisp > implementations, namely: > > * package-local nicknames: the ability to specify, for each package, a > list of nicknames for other packages which are in effect only in that > package; available on ABCL and SBCL ( > http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Package_002dLocal-Nicknames) and possibly > other implementations I'm not aware of. > * "Hierarchical" packages: a naming convention for packages understood by > the reader and a few support functions, which allow to have concise > nicknames for a group of closely related packages, such as > com.foo.mylib.api and com.foo.mylib.implementation. Found natively in > Allegro CL ( > http://franz.com/support/documentation/current/doc/packages.htm) and in > an open-source library by P. Bourguignon. > > My questions: > 1) First and foremost, is anybody actually using those features? What are > you using them for? > 2) If yes, how useful are they for you? What shortcomings do you find in > them? > -- Kenneth Tilton 54 Isle of Venice Dr Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 k...@tiltontec.com http://tiltontec.com @tiltonsalgebra 646-269-1077 "In a class by itself." *-Macworld*
