From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 10:23:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <86k2dk77w6.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <642fd4b4-8b1c-a537-5a5f-6940691ec4b9@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475915209 18229 195.159.176.226 (8 Oct 2016 08:26:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 08:26:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 08 10:26:40 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bsmxe-0002G5-Nh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 10:26:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsmxd-0005Rb-7A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 04:26:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37484) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsmvf-0004aO-Cj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 04:24:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsmvc-00067Q-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 04:24:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39295 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsmvc-00064u-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 04:24:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bsmvV-0003No-4m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 10:24:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:MBwbwRm+/VtPAX+btGuDM3ECgLM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208076 Archived-At: On Fri, Oct 07 2016, Nikolay Kudryavtsev wrote: > Is there even a reason to try evolving Elisp into something else? A major pain point of Emacs Lisp is the lack of module system or other namespace mechanism. The prefixes all over the place make Elisp code quite verbose and ugly. Evolving Elisp into a language with a module system would be a "good thing". Helmut