From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CL packages landed
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:14:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1omgQ8-0006ll-6X@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2czaleqba.fsf@Mini.fritz.box> (message from Gerd Möllmann on Fri, 21 Oct 2022 06:47:05 +0200)
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CL packages are the wrong way to implement packages in Lisp.
As I explained in a discussion two years ago, packages implemented
using obarrays (or equivalent) don't work reliably.
We have a much better basis for Lisp packages
in the shorthands mechanism. It only needs to be completed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-23 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-21 4:47 CL packages landed Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-21 5:35 ` Po Lu
2022-10-21 6:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-21 6:48 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-21 6:55 ` Po Lu
2022-10-21 6:58 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-21 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-21 8:01 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-21 10:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-21 10:49 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-21 13:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-21 14:01 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-22 9:40 ` Michael Albinus
2022-10-22 10:20 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-22 15:09 ` Michael Albinus
2022-10-22 15:45 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-22 10:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-22 15:06 ` Michael Albinus
2022-10-21 6:50 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-21 7:42 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-10-21 7:57 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-21 15:06 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-21 17:21 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-21 20:13 ` Drew Adams
2022-10-22 10:56 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-22 12:13 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-23 19:14 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-10-24 4:17 ` Gerd Möllmann
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