#CommonLisp #Lisp

I just released In Nomine - a utility for creating, accessing, and managing custom namespaces in Common Lisp.

It's a backwards incompatible fork of lisp-namespace with more customization and tests.

Grab it from GitHub.

In hindsight, it's a very good way of shaving yaks while working on CLR2. It's not the first nor surely the last yak shaven that way. I have a namespacing utility that has enough functionality for me to like it and - more importantly - enough testware for me to trust it.

Maybe I can eventually port some code back into lisp-namespace so existing users can benefit from it.

Anyway! The difference list:

• Removed macros NAMESPACE-LET and NSLET,
• Removed the DEFINE-NAMESPACE option to automatically generate NAMESPACE-LET-based binding macros,
• Added boundp and makunbound functions for namespace names,
• Moved hash tables for bindings and documentation from being implicitly created as variables to slots of the namespaces objects themselves,
• Added long form of DEFINE-NAMESPACE to customize behavior of generated namespaces,
• Exported namespace objects and their readers.