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: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:17:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <25a8a3a6-81c8-3fbc-434d-fb1b24ae1d62@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="26168"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gerd =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=C3=B6llmann?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 13 05:18:08 2022 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 1ou4Rb-0006cy-QT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:18:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ou4R0-0005PC-Cg; Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:17:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ou4Qw-0005P1-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ou4Qv-0005P6-Ss; Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:17:25 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=fbD9dAZcACiQfnWEQSuoarzEZ1yu9sWPliXiDJorYOU=; b=Wm0JD4CZ3i9S Z84wzgaiArAtDjsLDFFfQJYnWGfWGpVUuGG/5WpV40AthUcx5RN4zxG+m+nqBkiTzxG4O0M5L8QMW cWslZ4UtQnGu3w9WhBVztFdQ0VcJxliXhD068rqgy0ynroQ9Woyc3KVfah8Fes8ZTlF/T8tGAozme dnE9IXutCAt09H+N/UgRUVneHx1dJJEZgFY3BPkVglWeWtW29vDYnD7IlYu1cFQ+5xdpSEIrEECah /BXsK0dCBWhGk4LOA6H9NUc3jsg+XFEzEM8nPqeHhggrmaEFcxGjtwklYp6EliI5Gm49FF6ddcypy qjbncuQoGtfhddeTbgxnoA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ou4Qv-0004XQ-LA; Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:17:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Gerd =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=C3=B6llmann?= on Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:33:09 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:299695 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. ]]] > There is no control over this, at least in the present implementation. > Nothing makes sure or warns if you bind read-symbol-shorthands in > whichever way you want. That's the Lisp tradition -- you get a lot of control, and we don't try to stop you from messing up various Lisp-level data structures used in the system. -- 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)