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: Tue, 12 May 2020 23:55:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0c88192c-3c33-46ed-95cb-b4c6928016e3@default> <87mu6dctgg.fsf@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="77691"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_T=C3=A1vora?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 13 05:56:15 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 1jYiVD-000K7S-Cb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 05:56:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38464 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYiVC-0003kk-E5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 May 2020 23:56:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56978) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYiUQ-0002SV-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2020 23:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56770) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYiUQ-000765-C5; Tue, 12 May 2020 23:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jYiUN-0000SE-9h; Tue, 12 May 2020 23:55:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87mu6dctgg.fsf@gmail.com> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=C3?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A3o_T=C3=A1vora?= on Tue, 12 May 2020 11:56:31 +0100) 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:250075 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. ]]] > This means it's hard to do automatic checking of consistency in naming, That is an abstract concept, and I can understand it abstractly, but I don't know concretely what that would do. > However, if people are looking for other constructs to manage > namespaces, it very much possible to develop shorthand.el so that you > can have: > (shorthand-in-namespace FOO :as "f") What would that do? I see values as argunments but what do they mean? -- 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)