From: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CommonLisp namespace system (was Re: adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?))
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:13:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9l81kvl.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1V2ylG-00080A-TF@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 27 Jul 2013 03:17:54 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> If you want to use symbols of the form foo:bar, I think it
> is better to write them as foo:bar all the time.
People don't want that though.
They want to avoid having long names for symbols or name clashes for
symbols.
The only way to achieve that is to separate the global name for the
symbol from the name used within the code.
Nic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-27 8:13 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 [this message]
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
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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