From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: constant `e' Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:22:08 +0100 Message-ID: <45CE1B60.9010406@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171135398 32393 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2007 19:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kevin Rodgers , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 10 20:23:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFxoV-0006fT-TT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:23:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFxoV-00086x-13 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:23:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFxoJ-00086i-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:22:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFxoH-00086W-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:22:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFxoH-00086T-NJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:22:57 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFxoH-0006TA-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:22:57 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:64801 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HFxoD-00025N-9e; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:22:55 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000712-3, 2007-02-10), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HFxoD-00025N-9e. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HFxoD-00025N-9e 57a2ab131309b18cea768e002a32ce50 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66234 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Their names are fine, but perhaps they should be interned in a different >> package (as soon as Emacs Lisp provides a structred namespace for >> symbols :-) > > The closest we have (and there's no change on the horizon, AFAIK) is > prefixes, which is why I suggested "math-e". math-e is short and understandable, fits well with a maybe-future structured namespace. No one has suggested a shorter name (expect for e of course ...). Those who want can easily define e themselves. I see no reason not to change e to math-e. Except that it may be rather hard to find and replace the current uses of e ... ;-)