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Function

find-package

find-package name ⇒ package

Arguments and Values

namea string designator or a package object.
packagea package object or nil.

Description

If name is a string designator, find-package locates and returns the package whose name or nickname is name. This search is case sensitive. If there is no such package, find-package returns nil.

If name is a package object, that package object is returned.

Examples

 (find-package 'common-lisp) ⇒  #<PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP">
 (find-package "COMMON-LISP-USER") ⇒  #<PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP-USER">
 (find-package 'not-there) ⇒  NIL

Affected By

The set of packages created by the implementation.

defpackage, delete-package, make-package, rename-package

See Also

make-package

Backlinks

Additional Constraints on Externalizable Objects, Definition of Similarity, Introduction to Packages, Package Names and Nicknames, Packages Dictionary, Symbols in the COMMON-LISP Package, The for-as-package subclause