From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David O'Toole <dto@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: un-deprecating CL
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:58:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IX7l6-0007k5-DB@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wsuqe0ka.fsf@gnu.org> (message from David O'Toole on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:56:53 -0400)
> One possible alternative is to define these functions with a cl-
> prefix, and for callers to use that prefix. That gets rid of the
> namespace issue. And if we think of them as internal parts of
> some Lisp package, they would not have to be in the Lisp Manual.
Would it be possible to use compiler macros so that existing programs
could continue to use these functions' un-prefixed names at compile
time?
That would be possible, but it seems like a bad idea -- it would
confuse people reading the program. Writing the calls with `cl-'
would be a clearer practice.
That would be helpful but it would still prevent many programs from
being contributed.
"Prevent" is too strong a word. These programs would need some change
in order to be installed in Emacs.
Adding `cl-' in front of certain function names is a pretty easy
change to make; we could add a command like query-replace to do it
semiautomatically.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 16:42 un-deprecating CL Joe Wells
2007-09-14 17:32 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-15 2:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-14 19:21 ` Karl Fogel
2007-09-15 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-15 18:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-15 18:14 ` Leo
2007-09-15 21:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-15 19:02 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-15 19:14 ` martin rudalics
2007-09-17 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 5:58 ` martin rudalics
2007-09-15 19:41 ` T. V. Raman
2007-09-17 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-18 14:59 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-19 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-19 3:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-20 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-20 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-20 19:15 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-21 22:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-19 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-15 19:52 ` T. V. Raman
2007-09-17 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 2:25 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-17 15:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 17:05 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-18 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-18 7:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-09-18 19:34 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-18 23:48 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-19 15:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-19 21:17 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-17 4:35 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-17 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-18 14:43 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-16 21:56 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-17 3:58 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-09-16 21:46 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-16 22:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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