Re: macro returning more than one form

Paul Tarvydas paultarvydas@gmail.com writes:

On 14-03-14 12:57 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

I'm writing diagram-compilers that emit CL. It seems to me that each emitted lump of code should be in it's own package. Am I thinking about this "wrong"?

Yes.

Packages are not designed or not practical for fine grained name scoping.

Furthermore, packages are used only to _READ_ symbols. You should not have any need of them when generating code. That is, at most, you would just intern generated symbols in a specific package to avoid poluting some other package, and you may want to manage the export list of a public package for the publicly accessible API to your generated code.