From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Better way to require with shorthands/renamed symbols Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:04:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20210927003203.15806.29864@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20210927003205.EF26620A5E@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <8735pqryt2.fsf@gmail.com> <0b213c21-aacb-fe9b-11c8-0c4e777fe14d@yandex.ru> <87pmsuqi5o.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30378"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, joaotavora@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com To: "T.V Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 08:57:02 2021 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 1mVq05-0007k8-Qk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:57:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47016 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVq04-0008Fe-Kz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVpBF-0008BN-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:04:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59612) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVpBF-000335-Ab; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:04:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVpBE-0001p7-LZ; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:04:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: (raman@google.com) 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:275856 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. ]]] > Consider a prefix separator char like ':' so that the shorthand is > easily distinguishable as a shorthand prefix? Might help in many ways: We plan to use this for existing prefixes that do not have a colon. For instance, 's-'. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)