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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276084 Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 10:05 PM Stefan Monnier w= rote: > > > (I'm not sure what you mean by "many/most", I at least don't know > > languages with namespaces that use a different strategy.) > > Some languages take extra steps to try and avoid relying on a unique > global namespace, and rely instead exclusively on relative names. > > See https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/325478.325518 for instance. > Whether that can be considered as having a unique global namespace or > not is somewhat philosophical, admittedly (and the abstract itself > suggests the authors aren't sure either ;-) Didn't you, Stefan Monnier of the University of Montreal (hehe), author a paper for the ELS where you discuss Elisp and namespaces? I think I saw it once, but can't find the link, am I dreaming? Jo=C3=A3o