Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages

[Matt Armstrong]

Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 08 2022, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>> Making it even worse, once BAR:HACK is recorded as the meaning of HACK
>> in FOO's symbol table (obarray), there was no way to make it mean some
>> other symbol HACK.
>
> That's technically wrong: it is possibly to "shadow" inherited symbols.

Yes, Common Lisp apparently grew mitigations for the pitfalls of
:use/use-package after Richard had experience with them.  I do not think
the pitfalls went away, though.