bbreviated (see <a href="#use-namespace"><code>USE-NAMESPACE</code></a>) and creates a mapping from its short
name to its assembly-qualified name (if necessary).  If <code><i>type</i></code> is a
string and <code><i>assembly</i></code> is <code>NIL</code>, then the function will try to create the
type from the string with the static .NET method <code>System.Type::GetType</code>.
If <code><i>type</i></code> is a string and <code><i>assembly</i></code> is a container representing an
assembly, then instead the