From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types.
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:00:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ePG1K-0003qS-Ox@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv374fsmqs.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:45:59 -0500)
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> Moving forward, I'd expect that "types" will get a more first-class
> presence in Elisp, so you should be able to check if a given type name
> is already used.
If type names are global, that won't be enough to avoid conflicts.
You must avoid conflicts with all the Lisp packages that _might_ get
loaded.
It's just like the situation with function definitions and global variables.
That means you should use your package's naming convention for record
types, just as for functions and global variables, to avoid conflicts
with other packages that you don't know about.
We should document this in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-13 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-11 21:37 [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types Philipp Stephani
2017-12-11 22:25 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-12-21 16:35 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-12 3:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-12 19:13 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-12-12 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 23:00 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-12-14 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-14 22:16 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 23:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-15 21:25 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 22:17 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-22 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-21 17:29 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-13 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-12 22:06 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-12 22:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 15:41 ` Sam Steingold
2017-12-13 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 23:03 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 1:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 1:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-12-13 1:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 17:40 ` Stephen Leake
2017-12-13 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-14 22:16 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 22:16 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-21 17:34 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-21 18:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-22 18:46 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-22 19:39 ` [SUSPECTED SPAM] " Stefan Monnier
2017-12-23 14:56 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-23 14:56 ` make-record Richard Stallman
2017-12-23 15:53 ` make-record Stefan Monnier
2017-12-24 20:35 ` make-record Richard Stallman
2017-12-26 2:43 ` make-record Stefan Monnier
2017-12-26 19:41 ` make-record Richard Stallman
2017-12-12 22:05 ` [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types Richard Stallman
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