Re: [cedet-eieio] Cleaning up the EIEIO namespace

[Eric M. Ludlam]

On 02/12/2013 05:10 PM, David Engster wrote:
> Stefan Monnier writes:
> > Here is a patch that attempts to clean up part of the EIEIO namespace.
> > If you like it, please install it upstream, so it will get merged into
> > Emacs later on.  If you prefer, I can install it into Emacs directly and
> > you'll merge it later on upstream, of course.
>
> Thank you for the patch. I know it cannot have been fun. :-)

Agreed.  Thanks for spending time on this.

[...]

> As for the general direction of the cleanup: We did discuss this a bit
> in the bug report you opened for it some time ago, and Eric stated that
> he'd at least like to keep the CLOS-compatible names without having to
> prefix everything with 'eieio-'. Your suggestion was to use the shorter
> 'cl-' prefix instead, and at least I think that is a good compromise. So
> instead of using 'eieio-class-name', for instance, we'd rather use
> 'cl-class-name'. I don't know enough CLOS to see which other names are
> affected by this (but I could easily look it up, of course).

I read through the patch, and tried to match up CLOS names that were 
affected by the rename.

For reference, here are some CLOS functions that were renamed in the patch:

class-name  -> eieio-class-name
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_class_.htm

class-of (was alias to object-class)  -> obsoleted
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_clas_1.htm

I didn't find anything else.

So on the whole, it didn't affect the CLOS functions much at all.  Good 
Stuff.

Thanks!
Eric