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: CommonLisp namespace system (was Re: adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?)) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:23:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874nbh2z3y.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87y58t1cih.fsf_-_@ferrier.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374863045 18248 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2013 18:24:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nic Ferrier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 26 20:24:06 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 1V2mgP-0002B8-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:24:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2mgP-0007cD-Gl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:24:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48370) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2mgL-0007aX-Ps for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2mgK-0007Fw-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:29345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2mgK-0007Fq-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:24:00 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZPn/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZPn/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="19924368" Original-Received: from 69-165-147-231.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.147.231]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 26 Jul 2013 14:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5E5F862D9D; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:23:59 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87y58t1cih.fsf_-_@ferrier.me.uk> (Nic Ferrier's message of "Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:01:26 +0100") 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:162159 Archived-At: > I disagree. Emacs isn't CommonLisp, never has been CommonLisp and > very likely, never will be CommonLisp. Agreed, but all else being equal, it's better to do the same as Common-Lisp (or as Scheme) than to invent our own. Stefan