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From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, eliz@gnu.org, akrl@sdf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:09:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7td7qfu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1otLl4-0006zs-9c@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:35:14 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Now I see why you think this is not necessary.  Your idea for how to
> handle s.el is to use an edited version, edited to specify shorthands.

The magnars-string.el file is meant to supersede s.el and be a
well-behaved version of it.  The s.el file, as it exists today, is a
namespace-polluting liability, we shouldn't maintain it.  The good thing
about shorthands here is that minimal changes need to be done to both
the library and its users, so making packages in (Non)GNU ELPAs and core
start using magnars-string.el is very little effort which is well worth
spending.

>   > Providing two different ways to load an .el file so that each interns
>   > different
>   > symbols into obarray would lead to unfortunate consequences where it would
>   > be hard or impossible for humans or programs to understand the provenance of
>   > a given symbol.
>
> I don't follow you here.  What problems do you see?

If I find a bug or want to add some function to that presumed s.el that
your string.el is loading specially, I have to somehow remember to load
it with shorthands.  The usual commands C-M-x, M-x load-file, M-x
emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load will all produce wrong results that I
won't know how to fix.  This is uncharted and dangerous territory: after
your change, information about where to intern symbols of an Emacs Lisp
file would no longer be completely contained in the file itself.

For non-human users, violating this invariant would possibly also break
tools that map files to symbols, such as C-h f (describe-function) and
M-. (xref-find-definition).

João







  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-11 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-30  6:45 Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-30  8:38 ` tomas
2022-10-30  8:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-30  9:14     ` tomas
2022-10-30 10:26       ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-30 10:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-30 11:24           ` Is there a need for a module system Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-30 11:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-30 14:03               ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-30 10:40       ` Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-30 11:06         ` tomas
2022-10-30 11:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-30 12:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-30 13:48   ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-30 14:25     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-31  6:31       ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-30 20:16 ` Helmut Eller
2022-10-31  6:27   ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-31 12:13     ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-10-31 12:57       ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-31 13:38         ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-10-31 19:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-11  4:35         ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-11  9:33           ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-13  4:17             ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-13  6:41               ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-03  3:17     ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-03  8:12       ` Michael Albinus
2022-11-03  3:17     ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-03  5:33       ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-03  3:17     ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-03  8:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-05 16:49         ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-05 17:04           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-07  7:47             ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-07 12:52               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-08  6:19               ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-08  9:54                 ` João Távora
2022-11-08 10:35                   ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-08 15:40                     ` João Távora
2022-11-08 15:47                     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-11-08 22:43                       ` João Távora
2022-11-09  6:57                         ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-09  7:23                       ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-11  4:34                     ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-11  9:25                       ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-12  3:35                         ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-19 22:51                           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-20  7:18                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-20 18:55                               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-20 19:02                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-22 12:14                                 ` [External] : " Richard Stallman
2022-11-22 14:22                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-20  8:08                             ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-12  3:35                         ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-22 19:37                         ` Matt Armstrong
2022-11-23  7:33                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-11-26 23:32                             ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-27  9:05                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-11-30 23:55                                 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-23  7:42                           ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-12-14 22:21                             ` Richard Stallman
2022-12-15  6:47                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-17 14:53                                 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-22 18:01                       ` Matt Armstrong
2022-11-22 18:44                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-23  0:55                           ` Matt Armstrong
2022-11-23  7:49                             ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-23 12:18                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11  4:35                 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-11  9:35                   ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-11 12:09                     ` João Távora
2022-11-11 13:01                       ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-11 14:23                         ` João Távora
2022-11-11 15:12                           ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-12  9:17                             ` João Távora
2022-11-12 13:00                               ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-12  3:35                     ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-05 21:47           ` Eduardo Ochs
2022-11-06  9:05           ` Michael Albinus
2022-11-06 11:19             ` João Távora
2022-11-11  4:35               ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-11 10:09                 ` João Távora [this message]
2022-11-12  3:35                   ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-12 10:11                     ` João Távora
2022-11-12 14:36                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-12 15:20                         ` João Távora
2022-11-12 17:32                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-12 18:45                             ` João Távora
2022-11-14  1:03                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-14  6:33                                 ` João Távora
2022-11-14 11:41                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-14 13:41                                     ` João Távora
2022-11-14  3:13                             ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-11  4:35             ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-11  8:53               ` Michael Albinus
2022-11-11  4:35   ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-11  7:10     ` Helmut Eller
2022-11-01  3:11 ` Ag Ibragimov
2022-11-02 20:11 ` João Távora
2022-11-03  5:12   ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-03 20:04     ` A short defense of shorthands.el (but CL packages are still better) (Was: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages) João Távora
2022-11-04  3:28       ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-05  1:09         ` A short defense of shorthands.el (but CL packages are still better) João Távora
2022-11-07  7:44           ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-07 10:18             ` João Távora
2022-11-08  5:02               ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-08  5:18                 ` João Távora
2022-11-05  3:13     ` Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages Richard Stallman
2022-11-06 11:31       ` João Távora
2022-11-08  0:27         ` Matt Armstrong
2022-11-08  4:52           ` João Távora
2022-11-08  5:34             ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-09  4:03           ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-09  5:13             ` Matt Armstrong
2022-11-09  4:03           ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-09  5:42             ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-09  5:48               ` tomas
2022-11-09  6:02             ` Matt Armstrong
2022-11-09  7:15               ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-11-09  8:34               ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-11-09 10:07             ` Helmut Eller
2022-11-09 18:22               ` Matt Armstrong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-11-07 21:20 Payas Relekar
2022-11-08  9:40 ` João Távora

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