## Function: COMMON-LISP:MAKE-PACKAGE [![package](https://img.shields.io/badge/Package-COMMON--LISP-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](../) [![type](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-Function-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](../#function) [![clhs](https://img.shields.io/badge/CLHS-MAKE--PACKAGE-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_mk_pkg.htm) [![github](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-View_the_source-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999&logo=github)](https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/src/code/target-package.lisp/) > Make a new package having the specified NAME, NICKNAMES, and USE > list. :INTERNAL-SYMBOLS and :EXTERNAL-SYMBOLS are estimates for the number of > internal and external symbols which will ultimately be present in the package. > The default value of USE is implementation-dependent, and in this > implementation it is NIL. ### Lambda list ```cl (sb-impl::name &key sb-impl::use sb-impl::nicknames sb-impl::internal-symbols sb-impl::external-symbols) ```