Automatic maintenance of exported symbols in Common Lisp packages

Authors

Christophe Vermorel

Type

techreport

Year

2013

Number

1305

Abstract

Common Lisp og packages fg provide a functionality similar to og namespaces fg present in C++. They allow to encapsulate symbols that can be either exported or private. The exported ones must be explicitly declared at the package definition. This list is tedious to maintain when developing large projects. In this report will study ways to automatically maintain this list. Several approaches are proposed and compared.