From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lexbind Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ve42dqn1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204752953 3471 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2008 21:35:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:35:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 22:36:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JX1HP-0006Yj-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:36:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX1Gs-0004hD-1U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:35:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX1FJ-0003ji-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX1FH-0003iv-SW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX1FH-0003ip-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JX1FH-0003T1-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JX1FG-0001C7-Vb; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:51 -0500 In-reply-to: <87ve42dqn1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:18:58 +0900) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91415 Archived-At: > Yes, it may require renaming. It's usually not a big deal, tho. > > I think we would be better off also having other mechanisms > for doing this, which do not require renaming. Could you give a concrete example of what you're talking about? One mechanism that has been used is (declare (special foo)). That is one possible choice now.