2.8 Packages

The following packages are built into ECL.

Name	Nicknames
common-lisp	cl, lisp
common-lisp-user	cl-user, user
system	si
keyword

For instance, the system package has two nicknames sys and si; system:symbol may be written as sys:symbol or si:symbol.

Depending on the configuration option by which ECL has been built, additional packages may be available: compiler, clos and xlib.

The compiler package contains symbols used by the ECL compiler. Other packages are described in Section 11.6 of [see Steele:84]. The clos package is used for the internal symbols of the Common-Lisp Object System, which is described in Chapter 14. The xlib package is used for the internal symbols of CLX, the Common-Lisp Language X Interface to the X Window System, which is described in a separate manual.

Packages are printed as #<package-name package>.