public Symbol shadow (List symbolList, Package package) {
	
	//find the package???
	//not sure if this returns nil or not if the package is not found
	Symbol package = findPackage(packName);
	
     //does findPackage take care of this for us?
	if(package == NULL) {
		print("SHADOW:  There is no package with the name <packName>);
	}
	
	else {
		//make new instance of list not sure how to do this
		List shadowList = new List(arr);
		//can we make an iterator object now since we have an instance of the list class?
		java.util.Iterator iterator = arr.Iterator();
		
	     //can we make this be our package-shadowing-symbols list???
		while(iterator.hasNext()) {
			if symbol is already present in package
				shadowList.add(iterator.next());

			else
			{
				create an internal symbol
				shadowList.add(iterator.next());
			}
		}
		
	}

	return(true);
	//do we have to do this?
	//return(lisp.common.type.T.T);
      //return(Symbol T);

}

//overload the method to allow the user to call shadow without specifying a package
public boolean shadow(List symbol_list)
{
	shadow(symbol_list, current_package)
}