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The context was: "FOO can be generic and applied to different types of objects." That only works if everybody uses the same symbol FOO. Library:FOO is a different symbol and won't be combined automatically, so you must package-qualify.

(Regarding local aliases, I was talking about local package name aliases, which could make it somewhat less awkward.)

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Of course. Why would LOTTERY:DRAW and GRAPHICS:DRAW be smashed together?

but now you're back to (lottery:draw x) which isn't any shorter than (lottery-draw x), so the point about names not being namespaced to the object they are applied to remains.

If I have inherited both, I cannot use the symbol DRAW to refer to both; at most one of them can be just DRAW.

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