October 2012
1 post
The four causes of symbol conflicts
A symbol conflict arises when a package operation would result in two distinct symbols with the same name being accessible in a single package. There are exactly four ways this can happen.
Inheriting: When you use (via use-package or the defpackage :use clause) a package that exports a distinct symbol sharing the same name with a symbol already accessible in the using package. The conflict can...
