Common Lisp exporting symbols from packages

Question

Is there a short way of exporting all the symbols from a package or is it the only way to do it in defpackage. I generally write my code in a file foo.lisp

Answer 1

Vsevolod's post inspired me to post a macro as well:

(defmacro defpackage! (package &body options)
  (let* ((classes (mapcan 
                    (lambda (x) 
                      (when (eq (car x) :export-from-classes)
                        (cdr x)))
                    options))
         (class-objs (mapcar #'closer-common-lisp:find-class classes))
         (class-slots (mapcan #'closer-mop:class-slots class-objs))
         (slot-names (mapcar #'closer-mop:slot-definition-name class-slots))
         (slots-with-accessors
           (remove-duplicates (remove-if-not #'fboundp slot-names))))
    (setf options (mapcar
                    (lambda (option)
                      (if (eq (car option) :export)
                        (append option 
                                (mapcar #'symbol-name slots-with-accessors))
                        option))
                    options))
    (setf options (remove-if 
                    (lambda (option)
                      (eq (car option) :export-from-classes))
                    options))
    `(defpackage ,package ,@options)))

To use:

CL-USER> 
(defclass test-class ()
  ((amethod :accessor amethod :initarg :amethod :initform 0)
   (bmethod :reader bmethod :initform 1)))
#
CL-USER> 
(closer-mop:ensure-finalized  (find-class 'test-class))
#
CL-USER> 
(macroexpand-1 
  `(defpackage! test-package
     (:export "symbol1")
     (:export-from-classes test-class)))
(DEFPACKAGE TEST-PACKAGE
  (:EXPORT "symbol1" "AMETHOD" "BMETHOD"))
T
CL-USER> 

This isn't well tested, and I'm still learning the MOP API, so there may be much better/cleaner ways to achieve the same goal here (especially the fboundp kludge). Also, this only looks for accessor functions on a class. There are also methods that specialize on a class. You could use the MOP to find those as well...