From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lexicons
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:57:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34nb9nkfv.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwviozpf5pm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:46:54 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> 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.
I think packages are useful, but they also have their problems.
When writing Common Lisp, I'm glad that I don't have to read and write
foo:bar constantly, but I'm annoyed that I can't call my logging
function in foo for `log', because that's a reserved word from the CL
package. (Your namespace suggestion doesn't have this problem, though.)
When writing Emacs Lisp, I'm annoyed that I'm typing `gnus-summary-foo'
all the time, but I'm happy that grep reliably finds all code that calls
`gnus-summary-foo', and that when I'm reading code, I know immediately
what function that's being called, context-free.
So... er... yes. I think I am arguing against any kind of namespace
support. >"?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-01 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-30 21:55 lexicons Richard Stallman
2013-07-31 3:47 ` lexicons Stefan Monnier
2013-07-31 10:27 ` lexicons Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-01 21:46 ` lexicons Stefan Monnier
2013-08-01 21:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2013-08-02 4:53 ` lexicons Teemu Likonen
2013-08-02 5:00 ` lexicons Lars Brinkhoff
2013-08-02 12:25 ` lexicons Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-02 6:41 ` lexicons Bastien
2013-08-02 13:50 ` lexicons Stefan Monnier
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