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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:51:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvli4sj075.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2q50x58.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> (Nic Ferrier's message of "Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:33:23 +0100")

>>> If a namespace package calls intern the symbol is interned in the
>>> private obarray.
>> I'm not sure how you could do that and neither am I sure that would
>> preserve backward compatibility.  So without more details of how that
>> would work, it sounds like wishful thinking to me.
> This is the core of my proposal.
> The guts of intern need to be altered to be aware of when it is being
> called in a packaged context. I am currently expecting to be able to do
> this with a file local variable.

That's easy when the reader calls `intern', but I'm talking about when
the Elisp code itself makes calls to `intern'.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-27  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-26 14:08 adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?) Nic Ferrier
2013-07-26 14:34 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-26 17:01   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-26 17:01   ` CommonLisp namespace system (was Re: adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?)) Nic Ferrier
2013-07-26 17:19     ` Drew Adams
2013-07-26 18:26       ` Sebastian Wiesner
2013-07-26 18:53         ` Drew Adams
2013-07-26 21:08         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-26 18:23     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-26 18:32       ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-26 18:45     ` Tom Tromey
2013-07-26 18:58       ` Drew Adams
2013-07-26 19:06         ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-26 20:46           ` CommonLisp namespace system Lars Brinkhoff
2013-07-26 20:57             ` Drew Adams
2013-07-26 21:47               ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-29 17:31                 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2013-07-26 20:57           ` CommonLisp namespace system (was Re: adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?)) Drew Adams
2013-07-27  7:17           ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-27  8:13             ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-27 11:43               ` Bastien
2013-07-27 12:00                 ` David Engster
2013-07-27 16:56                   ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-27 23:52               ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-28  7:22                 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-28  8:18                   ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-28 12:10                   ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-28 13:48                     ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-29 10:12                       ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-29 10:45                         ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-30  0:31                           ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-27  9:37             ` CommonLisp namespace system Lars Brinkhoff
2013-07-26 19:42         ` CommonLisp namespace system (was Re: adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?)) Drew Adams
2013-07-26 21:26       ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-26 21:06     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-26 21:44       ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-27  7:16   ` adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?) Richard Stallman
2013-07-26 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-26 16:56   ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-26 18:18     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-26 19:00       ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-26 20:59         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-26 21:43           ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-26 21:59             ` Drew Adams
2013-07-26 22:21             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-26 22:33               ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-27  0:51                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-07-27  8:27                   ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-27 14:12                     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-27 16:17                       ` Nic Ferrier
2013-07-27 17:28                         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-27 10:35                   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-26 22:00           ` Drew Adams
2013-07-27  0:49             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-27  1:13               ` Drew Adams
2013-07-27  7:02               ` Lars Brinkhoff
2013-07-27 10:33                 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-31  6:48                   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2013-07-27 10:31               ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-27 14:14                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-27 16:43                   ` Drew Adams
2013-07-26 17:21   ` Davis Herring

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