From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Devon Sean McCullough Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#72160: 29.3; package buglet Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:30:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877cdfm2my.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6587"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.6.0 Cc: 72160@debbugs.gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 21 17:31:18 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sVYWr-0001Xc-CU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2024 17:31:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sVYWc-0004sI-Ry; 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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.