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From: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal to change naming format to allow package-prefix/function-name
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:12:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADtN0WJaU0dTKWGkXJ5Sb93PU3g_n5WmvNAVuTMwTBu55fBpzA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SR2d-BVzSr-mt-AuSqCR-tzHgPucyD2+uvdfiN=-Ty6hQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 30 Dec 2019, 20:05 Juanma Barranquero, <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I think this proposal is unlikely to gain traction. But if it were, in a
> Lisp context colon (:) would make more sense IMHO, as it is used in Common
> Lisp to separate the namespace ("package", in CL-speak) from the symbol
> name. That would make easier to adapt to CL-style namespaces, if they were
> implemented in Emacs some day (which I think won't ever happen, if previous
> discussions on the subject are to be believed).
>

I just want to voice my 100% agreement that the minus character should be
changed. Its double use is, as mentioned in the original post, incredibly
annoying to read. In my package, gnu-apl-mode, all symbols are prefixed
with gbu-apl- and it's full of these issues.

Whether the character is / or : or anything else, I could not care less.
All I want is a symbol that isn't much used for anything else.

The benefit of / is that a lot of third party packages already use it.

>

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-30 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-30  7:02 Proposal to change naming format to allow package-prefix/function-name Zachary Kanfer
2019-12-30 12:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-12-30 13:12   ` Elias Mårtenson [this message]
2019-12-30 21:50   ` Zachary Kanfer
2019-12-31  0:45     ` Richard Stallman
2020-01-02 18:32       ` Sam Steingold
2019-12-31  0:06 ` Adam Porter
2019-12-31 10:14   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-12-31 10:54     ` Ihor Radchenko
2019-12-31 12:06     ` Clemens Radermacher
2019-12-31 14:48       ` Teemu Likonen

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