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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.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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  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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