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, 26 Nov 2022 18:32:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <651bbe21-f179-730a-4f10-7dc6d27055ea@gmail.com> <871qpubx1p.fsf@rfc20.org> 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="19244"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: matt@rfc20.org, gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 27 00:33:41 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 1oz4g0-0004nI-Kf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:33:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oz4fJ-00078T-88; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 18:32:57 -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 1oz4fD-00073d-EO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 18:32:55 -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 1oz4fC-0006Sy-JN; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 18:32:50 -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=AUO937R1Uj7T3+6O43kRpBYatcqjxMSskkUH9iHrhCQ=; b=S/cyA9e5xmG6 GwiegaR+MxRq/n8xRnaQBorB8KjbdJNdFTo7c3tV1CuUJ2MNIDNClrwIYSnqUKLaAzefidv33dqh9 iZvhw6x/jxizTrTt7xeFbL+jYqQfCKA8kTwicFDSXzo/UqHyERCzDLvX3NXxuE6q/wR4D0P+H4t61 GLBEG0ym5bcyCRnN6qD2m5WPa+gojoaNDUn3zCAKNeQtLLK+CBQROggGr2QcTrmZyz5WITsk+o+XE heIZDv2wHQnLVQe10WWMMWQPDIxdFcPirXphGU+NtcsLurd2+Wi+HI0mnd7dhy5CJ/m7JykFhqxZp otr2bwu1PfabQYIN3jv4Rw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oz4fA-0004zK-Nf; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 18:32:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:33:03 +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:300603 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. ]]] > Of course in Ada it is, perhaps, more common today to rename imported > packages as a short prefix, instead of "using" them, but that's for > readability, which is a big emphasis in Ada culture. Our package system could adopt that practice instead of USE. That would avoid this problem entirely. -- 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)