symbol-package symbol → contents

symbol — a symbol.

contents — a package object or nil.

Returns the home package of symbol.

(in-package "CL-USER") → #<PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP-USER"> 
(symbol-package 'car) → #<PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP"> 
(symbol-package 'bus) → #<PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP-USER"> 
(symbol-package :optional) → #<PACKAGE "KEYWORD"> 
;; Gensyms are uninterned, so have no home package. 
(symbol-package (gensym)) → NIL 
(make-package 'pk1) → #<PACKAGE "PK1"> 
(intern "SAMPLE1" "PK1") → PK1::SAMPLE1, NIL 
(export (find-symbol "SAMPLE1" "PK1") "PK1") → T 
(make-package 'pk2 :use '(pk1)) → #<PACKAGE "PK2"> 
(find-symbol "SAMPLE1" "PK2") → PK1:SAMPLE1, :INHERITED 
(symbol-package 'pk1::sample1) → #<PACKAGE "PK1"> 
(symbol-package 'pk2::sample1) → #<PACKAGE "PK1"> 
(symbol-package 'pk1::sample2) → #<PACKAGE "PK1"> 
(symbol-package 'pk2::sample2) → #<PACKAGE "PK2"> 
;; The next several forms create a scenario in which a symbol 
;; is not really uninterned, but is "apparently uninterned", 
;; and so SYMBOL-PACKAGE still returns NIL. 
(setq s3 'pk1::sample3) → PK1::SAMPLE3 
(import s3 'pk2) → T 
(unintern s3 'pk1) → T 
(symbol-package s3) → NIL 
(eq s3 'pk2::sample3) → T

import, intern, unintern

Should signal an error of type type-error if symbol is not a symbol.

intern