Re: CommonLisp namespace system

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> There are cases where this can't work cleanly, mainly because the
> obarray has to be chosen when the symbol is read, and what you really
> want is to choose later on.

There is another Lisp namespace implementation called "lexicons",
where the namespace resolution is done at compile time rather than at
read time as with CL packages.  Maybe some people would find that more
their taste.

An introduction is here:
http://blog.rongarret.info/2010/02/new-and-improved-lexicons-now-50-lexier.html

Longer article:
http://www.flownet.com/ron/lisp/lexicons.pdf

Source code:
http://www.flownet.com/ron/lisp/lexicons.lisp