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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: "Michał \"phoe\" Herda" <phoe@disroot.org>,
	"João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why :USE sucks in the Common Lisp package system
Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 15:01:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97d553d0-1d00-05a4-1601-d2b8b110c838@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <378efe96-8069-2aaa-283f-14edf13445e5@disroot.org>

On 5/9/20 2:55 PM, Michał "phoe" Herda wrote:
> Thanks for the welcome.
> 
> On 09.05.2020 23:47, João Távora wrote:
>> But don't _you_ ever use :USE it for packages that you _do_ have
>> control over?  Like an internal utils package?  Or a test package
>> that uses the package under testing?  Otherwise I agree with you
>> about the ":USE abuse".
> 
> Of course I do! I've mentioned in my earlier mail,
> 
>  > or a combination of packages that do not change and we have full 
> control over so we can manually see and resolve the symbol conflicts as 
> they arise
> 
> Perhaps that wasn't clear enough from me: I meant that it is fine to 
> :USE packages that are known to not change and to :USE packages that we 
> fully control, such as internal util packages that you mention; and it 
> is fine to combine using the two within a single package.

It's just as easy to use local nicknames here though. I still haven't 
seen a compelling case for :use that outweighs the risk of imprudent 
use. Why is prefix-less import of some internal utils package so 
important?  If the utils package and the user of the utils package have 
the same author, they can just share a namespace instead of one using 
the other.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-09 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-04 10:52 Proper namespaces in Elisp João Távora
2020-05-04 15:11 ` Adam Porter
2020-05-04 15:38   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-04 15:49     ` João Távora
2020-05-04 16:39       ` Adam Porter
2020-05-04 16:49         ` João Távora
2020-05-04 18:00       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-04 20:19       ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-05  2:51     ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 15:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-04 16:04   ` João Távora
2020-05-04 18:29     ` Helmut Eller
2020-05-04 18:39     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 19:02       ` João Távora
2020-05-04 19:20         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 19:49           ` João Távora
2020-05-04 21:59         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-04 22:34           ` João Távora
2020-05-05 10:33             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-05 10:54               ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-05 12:50               ` João Távora
2020-05-05 13:34                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-05 14:03                   ` João Távora
2020-05-05 14:26                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-05 21:20                       ` João Távora
2020-05-05 23:37                         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-06  0:15                           ` João Távora
2020-05-06  7:07                             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-06 19:48                               ` João Távora
2020-05-07  6:13                                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-05 13:45               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-05 14:07                 ` João Távora
2020-05-05  4:55           ` Helmut Eller
2020-05-04 21:40     ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-04 22:09       ` João Távora
2020-05-05  1:09         ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-05  9:38           ` João Távora
2020-05-05 16:41             ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-05 21:29               ` João Távora
2020-05-06  3:25                 ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-06 19:38                   ` João Távora
2020-05-06 22:47                     ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-07 10:00                       ` João Távora
2020-05-07 18:30                         ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-07 19:32                           ` João Távora
2020-05-04 22:40       ` João Távora
2020-05-05  1:24         ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-04 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-05 15:10 ` Tom Tromey
2020-05-05 21:30   ` João Távora
2020-05-07  2:23     ` Tom Tromey
2020-05-07  3:12       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-07 13:02         ` Tom Tromey
2020-05-07 13:48           ` João Távora
2020-05-07 18:17             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-07 18:48               ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-07 20:33                 ` João Távora
2020-05-08  2:56                   ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-08 15:56                     ` João Távora
2020-05-08 17:59                       ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-08 18:38                         ` João Távora
2020-05-07 19:37         ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-07 20:28           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-07 20:42             ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-07 21:06               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-07 21:10                 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-07 21:46                   ` João Távora
2020-05-07 21:56                     ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-07 22:12                       ` João Távora
2020-05-08 18:59               ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-08 19:34                 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-09  0:00                   ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-09  0:32                     ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-09  8:37                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-09 16:11                         ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-09 17:25                           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-09 17:45                             ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-09 18:23                               ` João Távora
2020-05-09 18:32                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-09 18:35                                   ` João Távora
2020-05-09 18:39                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-09 19:11                                       ` João Távora
2020-05-09 18:30                               ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-09 18:33                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-09 18:48                                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-09 20:34                                     ` Why :USE sucks in the Common Lisp package system Michał "phoe" Herda
2020-05-09 21:47                                       ` João Távora
2020-05-09 21:55                                         ` Michał "phoe" Herda
2020-05-09 22:01                                           ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2020-05-09 22:07                                             ` Michał "phoe" Herda
2020-05-09 22:12                                           ` João Távora
2020-05-10 10:10                                             ` Michał "phoe" Herda
2020-05-09 23:23                                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-10  6:46                                         ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-10  8:53                                           ` Helmut Eller
2020-05-10  9:59                                             ` Michał "phoe" Herda
2020-05-10  1:19                       ` Proper namespaces in Elisp Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-08 23:07                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-08 23:23                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-09  8:12                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-09 12:06             ` Tuấn-Anh Nguyễn

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