From 3721f3acb4f2b1ac09e924590d27bb81db9b90ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kaz Kylheku Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:05:22 -0700 Subject: doc: more accurate dialect note about package prefixes. * txr.1: Update the possibly misleading dialect note about treatment of foo:bar in ANSI CL. --- txr.1 | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/txr.1 b/txr.1 index 89f4aeb8..fffd41b2 100644 --- a/txr.1 +++ b/txr.1 @@ -11026,7 +11026,14 @@ syntax does not intern the symbol .code bar in the .code foo -package; the symbol must exist or else the syntax is erroneous. +package; the symbol must exist and be an exported symbol, or else the syntax is +erroneous. In ANSI Common Lisp, the syntax +.code foo::bar +does intern +.code foo +in the +.code bar +package. \*(TX's package system has no double-colon syntax, and lacks the concept of exported symbols. .NP* Uninterned Symbols -- cgit v1.2.3