From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: package.el changes before the feature freeze Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:32:34 +0800 Message-ID: <87d30tpubh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ipau51jh.fsf@gnu.org> <87626qk5xo.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349663567 2171 80.91.229.3 (8 Oct 2012 02:32:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 02:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Hackney , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 08 04:32:53 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TL39J-0006y9-3T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:32:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42971 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TL39C-00075c-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:32:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TL399-00075E-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:32:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TL398-0006Wb-Ce for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:32:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-da0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:45494) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TL398-0006WM-5d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-da0-f41.google.com with SMTP id i14so1456182dad.0 for ; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:32:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=120kA+peqVM4UI8BASP+bMCKWA9NQ16LddngWlqsJRE=; b=NnFSQ2hJ1L9w4rOwEDCs4GpxF67v89oiitmdh3uFB26lFzc2dqiOpq4BFSpUUjw5gN lm5cEc4adbBwki9HgxE6Uigi+ku/X5D7vo2nl6hyJIKmsIUy01zTRdgrjgWUZW/ah8bm yML4GAUki5h1t5jw8d1b/zZcUMV3rPKRMBx2ePt6kjCK8gA6K6HTdUn62xa9zBzBv6xi 7CCbna6Rhzub2CvIzYUNX3P3Df95UWS5WGFFmMqMvY7KFSd5ZTY/aUkJ4/u1flEUWD2A YalemO0U+Oun0T7cxupDZ3eCLxiBoPBokIs1MCc+fXxdqgRLx37qQ5RPKlP9PpWcHY0t /I2Q== Original-Received: by 10.68.204.66 with SMTP id kw2mr49336898pbc.110.1349663560530; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ulysses ([155.69.16.255]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id jw14sm9917433pbb.36.2012.10.07.19.32.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:32:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:38:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154214 Archived-At: > All those make me wonder: do we need the `name' slot to be symbol? > Why not let it be a string? Using symbols for package names makes sense conceptually, since a package name is often the same as the package's library prefix (e.g. debbugs) or a particular command provided by the library (e.g. nhexl-mode). So you'd practically never want to use a package name that isn't also a good symbol name. Also, it lets package.el uses assq rather than assoc in several places, which is always nice.