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Diffstat (limited to 'txr.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | txr.1 | 28 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -39459,7 +39459,10 @@ If a package called already exists, then .code defpackage selects that package for further operations. Otherwise, a new, -empty package is created. +empty package is created. In either case, this package is referred +to as the +.I "present package" +in the following descriptions. The .code name @@ -39477,7 +39480,7 @@ The supported clauses are as follows: The .code :use clause specifies packages whose local symbols are to be interned -into the package as foreign symbols. Each +into the present package as foreign symbols. Each .meta package-name may be a string or symbol naming an existing package. The list of package names is processed as if by a call to @@ -39485,8 +39488,27 @@ The list of package names is processed as if by a call to .meIP (:use-syms << symbol *) The .code :use-syms -clause specifies individual symbols to be interned in the new package. +clause specifies individual symbols to be interned in the present package. The arguments are symbols. +.meIP (:use-from < package-name << symbol-name *) +The +.code :use-from +clause specifies the names of local symbols in a package denoted by +.meta package-name +to be used in the present package. All arguments of +.code :use-from +are either strings or symbols which are reduced to strings by mapping +to their names. Each +.meta symbol-name +is interned in the package identified by +.metn package-name , +which may have the effect of creating that symbol. +This symbol is expected to be a local symbol of that package. If +that is so, the symbol is brought into the present package via +.codn use-symbol . +Otherwise if the symbol is foreign to package identified by +.metn package-name , +then an error exception is thrown. .meIP (:local << symbol-name *) The .code :local |