Re: CL packages landed

[Richard Stallman]

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CL packages are the wrong way to implement packages in Lisp.
As I explained in a discussion two years ago, packages implemented
using obarrays (or equivalent) don't work reliably.

We have a much better basis for Lisp packages
in the shorthands mechanism.  It only needs to be completed.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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