Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Our package system could adopt that practice instead of USE.
  > > That would avoid this problem entirely.

  > That already exists in Common Lisp packages, with nicknames.

That may be a good thing.  Can you show me a description of the
nicknames feature?

  > AFAIU, the main difference between what you want and the Common Lisp
  > package implementation Gerd was proposing is that you want to ban "use" and
  > he wants to keep it. That doesn't seem like a technical problem to me.

The problem caused by using USE is a problem of human behavior, shaped
by the technology.  Sometimes these problems, about what happens when people
use the technology they are given, are very important.

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