And if you ever wondered why CLOS makes you spell
out the names of readers and accessors, this is why.
CLOS does not want to make any assumptions about
how you want to make decisions about what
packages things are in.
It's the "right thing" rather than the "worse is better"
way, with all the usual
Kazimir Majorinc
writes:
> I need comprehensive review of use of generated symbols (make-symbol,
> copy-symbol, gensym... ) in CL. The books I have (both Grahams,
> Siebel, barely mention these operators, except for use of gensym in
> macros.
>
> What are other typical or interesting uses of thes