Re: CommonLisp namespace system (was Re: adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?))

[Nic Ferrier]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

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>
>     They want to avoid having long names for symbols or name clashes for
>     symbols.
>
> Emacs provides lots of ways to type the long names with fewer
> characters.  That is a better solution because it doesn't complicate
> the meaning of code.

It does. It's very good like that.

But it doesn't provide any ways for reading the long names.


> If people don't want to have shorter names appear in the code,
> then I suggest a system of read-time aliases:
>
>   (def-read-alias 'foo 'foo:bar)
>
> would tell the reader to replace `foo' with `foo:bar':
>
>   'foo => foo:bar
>
> `:::' could inhibit the alias processing for the symbol that follows.
>
>   ':::foo => foo

Is this meant to be buffer-local/file-local somehow? Because otherwise
there is a name space pollution problem.


Nic