From: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2023@jovi.net>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: 72160@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72160: 29.3; package buglet
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:30:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e90ea5436ae5675380d768f4d91b3792@jovi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877cdfm2my.fsf@posteo.net>
On 2024-07-21 05:59, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2023@jovi.net> writes:
>> Strings and symbols should be equally acceptable package designators.
>
> We can improve on that error message, but is there any use-case for
> denoting a package by a string?
Consistency -- load-library takes strings.
Features, libraries & packages all fill the same needs
so require should take strings too.
Peace
--Devon
P.S. Symbol/string dichotomy exposes implementation
details not germane to the user's task.
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2024-07-17 16:16 bug#72160: 29.3; package buglet Devon Sean McCullough
[not found] ` <handler.72160.B.172123303622025.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2024-07-17 17:12 ` bug#72160: Acknowledgement (29.3; package buglet) Devon Sean McCullough
2024-07-18 8:59 ` bug#72160: 29.3; package buglet Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-21 10:59 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-21 15:30 ` Devon Sean McCullough [this message]
2024-07-21 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 16:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
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