RE: delivery level 2 discards functions that are used only inside eval

Your suggestion didn't work. The package IS kept, just not the symbols as I
explained before. Only enumerating them explicitly using :keep-symbols
works.

> RTM: look at section 5.1.3.3 "Symbols, functions, and packages" in the
> delivery documentation. If you want to keep all the symbols in a named
> package, then you should consider the :packages-to-keep keyword.
> 
> - nick
> 
>    I have a function
> 
>    (defun foo (x)
>     ...)
> 
>    which is not used anywhere in the code.
>    Suppose that in runtime the program reads the expression 
> (foo 3) from a text
>    file into a variable z (or even (setf z (read-from-string 
> "(foo 3)"))), and
>    there is a call to
> 
>    (eval z)
> 
>    In delivery level 2 I get an error: undefined function FOO.
>    One way around it that I found is:
> 
>    (defun bar ()
>      (list #'foo))
> 
>    and to call (bar) from another function (I'm sure there 
> are similar ways).
> 
>    But is there a more elegant way? All the functions that I 
> want to use in the
>    text file are from the same package - perhaps this can help?
> 
>    Thanks,
>    Iddo
> 
>