From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: CommonLisp namespace system (was Re: adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?)) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9044c8b2-6dbd-4127-8524-6389012eadaa@default> References: <874nbh2z3y.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87y58t1cih.fsf_-_@ferrier.me.uk> <87zjt9rwh7.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <85aa2168-3fd2-42f0-b03f-74c3bc258545@default> <87ppu516qn.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374872299 20395 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2013 20:58:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nic Ferrier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 26 22:58:19 2013 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 1V2p5d-0002IB-33 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:58:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2p5c-0006ZW-PL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:58:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2p5Y-0006Tq-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2p5X-0004iv-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:17961) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2p5X-0004ic-6I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r6QKw0pO007145 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:58:02 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6QKvvkK015261 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:57:59 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt105.oracle.com (abhmt105.oracle.com [141.146.116.57]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6QKvuSL013185; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:57:56 GMT In-Reply-To: <87ppu516qn.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.7 (607090) [OL 12.0.6668.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:162172 Archived-At: > I am explicitly not offering to implement the CommonLisp name spacing > system in Emacs. >=20 > I can promise that I won't needlessly differ from it. Where I do differ > from it there will be a good reason. Again, could you please "spell [out] the differences out in more detail somewhere"? How does what you propose differ from the Common Lisp package system? What are the differences and the reasons for them?