From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>, 'egnarts-ms' <egnartsms@gmail.com>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CL package serious deficiencies
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:26:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F31DD52.20303@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwr7yytv8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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On 2/7/12 5:53 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> I've never understood what's wrong with including cl.el, nor why the
>>> The main issue is namespace. If someone goes through the code to rename
>>> it all to "cl-*", then we won't need to avoid using it.
>
>> I don't think the namespace is an issue. A _lot_ of people do, in
>> fact, (require 'cl), and packages continue to work for them. If there
>> were any serious conflicts, they'd already be fixed.
>> In other words, I don't think you can find an elisp package that only
>> works properly if cl isn't loaded.
>
> That's not the issue. The issue is that CL's namespace is really
> unclean and that's bad, regardless of whether other packages conflict.
While this allegation may be true, cl is so old and so generally
useful that it should be grandfathered in.
Also, cl.el _does_ take pains to use the "cl-" prefix for internal
symbols. It's the public interface that's unprefixed, and for the sake
of both convenience and backward compatibility, we shouldn't move the
entire CL library into its own namespace until we have some kind of
symbol namespace support.
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Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-06 14:18 CL package serious deficiencies egnarts-ms
2012-02-06 21:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-06 21:53 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-07 3:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-07 12:04 ` egnarts-ms
2012-02-07 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-08 13:15 ` egnarts-ms
2012-02-08 19:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-07 12:29 ` egnarts-ms
2012-02-07 18:43 ` Nix
2012-02-07 19:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-07 19:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-07 20:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-07 21:03 ` John Wiegley
2012-02-07 21:06 ` Nix
2012-02-07 21:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-07 21:10 ` Nix
2012-02-07 21:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-07 21:23 ` Nix
2012-02-07 21:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-07 21:30 ` Nix
2012-02-07 21:32 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-07 21:34 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-02-07 21:42 ` Tom Tromey
2012-02-08 1:53 ` Leo
2012-02-07 22:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-02-07 22:19 ` Nix
2012-02-08 13:28 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-08 15:00 ` Tom Tromey
2012-02-09 6:29 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-09 14:23 ` Eric Schulte
2012-02-10 15:44 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-10 18:36 ` Tom Tromey
2012-02-10 15:52 ` Tom Tromey
2012-02-10 16:23 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-10 16:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-09 6:30 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-09 13:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-10 15:44 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-10 18:34 ` Tom Tromey
2012-02-10 15:48 ` Tom Tromey
2012-02-10 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-08 2:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-02-07 22:41 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-07 23:10 ` Nix
2012-02-08 13:42 ` Eric Schulte
2012-02-08 13:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-08 13:51 ` Eric Schulte
2012-02-08 15:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-08 15:39 ` Eric Schulte
2012-02-08 15:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-08 14:26 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-08 13:15 ` Teemu Likonen
2012-02-09 7:33 ` spam- or registry-related things in Gnus need cl at run-time? (was: CL package serious deficiencies) Reiner Steib
2012-02-09 16:39 ` spam- or registry-related things in Gnus need cl at run-time? Teemu Likonen
2012-02-07 23:48 ` CL package serious deficiencies Stefan Monnier
2012-02-07 23:52 ` Nix
2012-02-08 0:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-08 0:15 ` Nix
2012-02-08 1:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-08 23:43 ` Nix
2012-02-09 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-08 2:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-02-08 2:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-08 4:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-02-08 11:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-08 17:42 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-08 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-08 0:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-02-08 1:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-08 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-08 2:26 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2012-02-08 22:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-08 22:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-08 23:35 ` Nix
2012-02-09 19:42 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-09 19:46 ` Nix
2012-02-10 1:09 ` John Wiegley
2012-02-10 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-10 15:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-10 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-10 18:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-10 18:21 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-10 15:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-10 18:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-10 18:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-10 18:47 ` Johan Bockgård
2012-02-10 17:12 ` Helmut Eller
2012-02-10 18:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-10 18:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-10 19:08 ` Teemu Likonen
2012-02-11 13:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-11 16:56 ` Johan Bockgård
2012-02-11 22:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-12 4:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-12 15:53 ` Teemu Likonen
2012-02-12 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-12 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-10 23:56 ` Helmut Eller
2012-02-12 4:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-12 17:39 ` Helmut Eller
2012-02-12 18:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-12 18:58 ` Helmut Eller
2012-02-19 12:52 ` Dimitri Fontaine
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