Next: Quick Reference, Previous: Errors, Verbosity, Troubleshooting, Up: ALPM — AutoLISP Package Management — User Manual   [Contents]

---

13 Conventions and Tips ¶

• One system per directory, definition file alongside the sources.
• Name entry-point files ‘main’; give the system the directory’s name.
• Keep ‘.alpm’ files pure ASCII.
• ALPM occupies the ‘alpm-’ function prefix and ‘*alpm-…*’ variable names; don’t define your own symbols there.
• Since AutoLISP has one flat global namespace, ALPM orders loads but cannot isolate names: prefix your library functions (‘geo-…’, ‘vec-…’) as you already should.