When is a package name equivalent to a package?

["Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@CMU-CS-C.ARPA>]

    I think the manual is quite clear.

    p.183 requires that the value of *package* be a package.

    p.182 specifies that certain functions, including INTERN, shall accept strings
    and symbols in place of packages.  As is unfortunately typical of the CLM,
    this specification is not repeated in the documentation of each of the affected
    functions, so it's quite easy to overlook.

Are we looking at the same page 182?   Where does it say that?  In the
last paragraph it says that "Any argument described as a PACKAGE NAME
may be either a string or a symbol."  Is that waht you're thinking of?
Intern takes a package argument, but says nothing about taking a package
name instead.

-- Scott