Re: Cleaning up the EIEIO namespace

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Drew Adams writes:
>> Your suggestion was to use the shorter 'cl-' prefix instead,
>> and at least I think that is a good compromise.  So instead of
>> using 'eieio-class-name', for instance, we'd rather use
>> 'cl-class-name'.
>
> So does this mean that we can no longer know from the `cl-' prefix which library
> is involved?
>
> (I don't mean which file in the library, but which library.  In the past, `cl-'
> pretty much indicated library `cl' - either file cl.el or one of its related
> files cl-mac.el, cl-seq.el etc.)

That is certainly a valid concern. But I (and I guess Stefan, too) was
thinking more along the lines that 'cl' essentially means "common lisp",
and EIEIO being a CLOS implementation, this would make sense. Maybe it
would be cleaner to also rename the eieio- files to cl-clos-, but that
would break a lot of things out there.

-David