From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 17:18:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83pnbms9m8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831ro2tqqx.fsf@gnu.org> <4a1fd3f4-df92-c756-9874-4d07b54148ac@yandex.ru> <83v9lesapw.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="119785"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 16:19:52 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUszf-000V2o-Oi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 16:19:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53500 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUsze-0000m9-S9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 10:19:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33312) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUszB-0000Hm-Is for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 10:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58362) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUszA-0003mz-V3; Sat, 02 May 2020 10:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4346 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUsyt-0005cb-OW; Sat, 02 May 2020 10:19:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Sat, 2 May 2020 16:05:29 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248449 Archived-At: > From: Philippe Vaucher > Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 16:05:29 +0200 > Cc: Dmitry Gutov , Emacs developers , > Stefan Monnier , Richard Stallman > I can only talk about the stuff I'm familiar with. Let others bring > up counter-arguments from other places. But while doing that, let's > remember to compare the sizes of the languages, because a small enough > language can definitely use an exhaustive list of candidates to the > benefit of the users. > > I don't understand why we still need to come up with examples of other languages (in other languages they > usually have namespaces as the norm), but here's a list of examples: > > https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/File.html Thank you. This shows 60 file-related functions. Does anyone want to look through a list that long to find what they need? I don't. (Funnily enough, "C-u C-h a file-name RET" also shows 63 functions and commands.)