From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:09:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <266155d4-f9c0-8ed3-8df5-32feea171076@yandex.ru> <542564DC-6DD0-41E5-A9CC-365673D68BE0@gmail.com> <93FA1F56-A056-4E17-A468-17829D638FF5@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="86624"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 05:10:06 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRUb-000MOH-IX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 05:10:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56650 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRUa-0000ys-JZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRTm-000876-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44138) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRTl-0004j9-M5; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:09:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRTj-0007f9-7l; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:09:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Sun, 3 May 2020 09:50:47 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248770 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > You said in a later mail that adding such aliases would pollute the > namespace. I infer that some aliases would be ok but many aliases not, is > that correct? I don't exactly remember my words, but I think I said that the s.el aliases would pollute the name space. These renamings for regexp-related functions might be ok as a renaming: a plan to obsolete the current names, perhaps 5 or 10 years from now, and switch to the new cleaner names. That is why I am working on the question of what renamings to do. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)