PLN CDR draft: Issue 6

An additional keyword argument to make-package similar to the :use keyword argument would be a nice feature. There are only two implementations introducing this extension, unfortunately they use different API for this argument.

Possible questions:

• Does it accept an alist or a nested list?
• Is the default value implementation-dependent, or is it an empty list?

sbcl, ccl, abcl, clasp, lispworks: no additional keyword argument.

ecl: has an additional keyword argument :local-nicknames, but it is undocumented and it segfaults on incorrect usage. The expected value is a list of conses: ((nickname . package)*).

acl: has an additional keyword argument :local-nicknames. The expected value is a list of lists: ((nickname package)*).

Add :local-nicknames keyword argument to make-package:

local-nicknames ::= ((nickname package)*)

nickname — a string designator.

package — a package designator.

local-nicknames defaults to an empty list.

See make-package.