Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [2013-08-01 23:57:24 +02:00] wrote:

> When writing Common Lisp, I'm glad that I don't have to read and write
> foo:bar constantly, but I'm annoyed that I can't call my logging
> function in foo for `log', because that's a reserved word from the CL
> package.

In Common Lisp you can control the symbols in your own packages. For the
annoyance:

    (shadow 'log)

or

    (defpackage :my-package
      (:use :cl)
      (:shadow :log))