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: adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 03:16:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874nbh2z3y.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374909413 22693 80.91.229.3 (27 Jul 2013 07:16:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 07:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nferrier@ferrier.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 27 09:16:56 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 1V2ykF-0007Jw-JN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:16:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57789 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2ykF-0003AF-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 03:16:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2ykA-00039v-Pr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 03:16:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2ykA-0000lp-0l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 03:16:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2yk9-0000ll-TS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 03:16:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2yk9-0007fB-0F; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 03:16:45 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 26 Jul 2013 07:34:33 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:162189 Archived-At: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. I used the Common Lisp package system on the Lisp machine and found it completely unhelpful. Using name prefixes is better. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.