Thanks for all your answers and pointers! I have learned a few things. I will proceed with my work with the insights you've given me and I will take local nicknames into even more careful consideration. You'll know about my work at the next ELS if you're interested and if it gets accepted.

Alessio

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Antoniotti Marco <antoniotti.marco@disco.unimib.it> wrote:

> On Dec 30, 2015, at 23:47 , Svante v. Erichsen <Svante.v.Erichsen@web.de> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On 2015-12-30 00:52:27+0100, Alessio Stalla wrote:
>> * package-local nicknames: the ability to specify, for each package, a
>> list of nicknames for other packages which are in effect only in that
>> package; available on ABCL and SBCL (
>> http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Package_002dLocal-Nicknames) and possibly other
>> implementations I'm not aware of.
>
> Very useful, and in my view missing from the standard. I would use it all the
> time, but portability is important for me. There should be a CDR for this,

Good! We have a volunteer to coordinate the efforts :) :)

Happy Holidays :)

MA

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