From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lexicons Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:46:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375393925 3898 80.91.229.3 (1 Aug 2013 21:52:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 21:52:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 01 23:52:04 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 1V50mw-0000qY-Ou for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:52:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40748 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V50mw-0001Yy-AB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47407) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V50mj-0001YJ-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V50hz-0004Ws-Sf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:47:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:56576) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V50hz-0004Wi-Mr; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:46:55 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhAKABK/CFG4rw3m/2dsb2JhbABEvgwEA3sXc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: AhAKABK/CFG4rw3m/2dsb2JhbABEvgwEA3sXc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="20379881" Original-Received: from 184-175-13-230.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.13.230]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 01 Aug 2013 17:46:48 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 99A5063C70; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 17:46:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:27:25 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:162344 Archived-At: > I think the prefix concept may have the same problem. Yes, it's inherent to the idea of letting people use shorter names for "local" entities, I think. So you're basically arguing against providing any kind of namespace/module/package support. Obviously, the status quo has the advantage that it works with current tools (including grep), whereas any change would break some of those uses. Stefan