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symbol-package
symbol ⇒ contents
symbol—a symbol.
contents—a package object or nil.
Returns the home package of symbol.
(in-package "CL-USER") ⇒ #<PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP-USER"> (symbol-package 'car) ⇒ #<PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP"> (symbol-package 'bus) ⇒ #<PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP-USER"> (symbol-package :optional) ⇒ #<PACKAGE "KEYWORD"> ;; Gensyms are uninterned, so have no home package. (symbol-package (gensym)) ⇒ NIL (make-package 'pk1) ⇒ #<PACKAGE "PK1"> (intern "SAMPLE1" "PK1") ⇒ PK1::SAMPLE1, NIL (export (find-symbol "SAMPLE1" "PK1") "PK1") ⇒ T (make-package 'pk2 :use '(pk1)) ⇒ #<PACKAGE "PK2"> (find-symbol "SAMPLE1" "PK2") ⇒ PK1:SAMPLE1, :INHERITED (symbol-package 'pk1::sample1) ⇒ #<PACKAGE "PK1"> (symbol-package 'pk2::sample1) ⇒ #<PACKAGE "PK1"> (symbol-package 'pk1::sample2) ⇒ #<PACKAGE "PK1"> (symbol-package 'pk2::sample2) ⇒ #<PACKAGE "PK2"> ;; The next several forms create a scenario in which a symbol ;; is not really uninterned, but is "apparently uninterned", ;; and so SYMBOL-PACKAGE still returns NIL. (setq s3 'pk1::sample3) ⇒ PK1::SAMPLE3 (import s3 'pk2) ⇒ T (unintern s3 'pk1) ⇒ T (symbol-package s3) ⇒ NIL (eq s3 'pk2::sample3) ⇒ T
import, intern, unintern
Should signal an error of type type-error if symbol is not a symbol.