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

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> 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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