From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types. Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:16:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20171211213729.41411-1-phst@google.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513289797 27180 195.159.176.226 (14 Dec 2017 22:16:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 14 23:16:32 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ePbnr-0006nn-P6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 23:16:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43255 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePbny-0001U1-TL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:16:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39533) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePbnm-0001RW-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:16:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePbnl-000109-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePbne-0000t7-8K; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:16:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ePbnd-0002Kp-PX; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:16:17 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:08:27 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221070 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. ]]] > > That means you should use your package's naming convention for record > > types, just as for functions and global variables, to avoid conflicts > > with other packages that you don't know about. > And that's already what has been done all these years. I can't follow you. Records are a new feature. But never mind that. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.