Re: Guidelines for the "symbol" syntax class

[John Yates]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

IOW you can't expect Emacs's notion of "symbol"
to cover all the use cases.  More specifically, Emacs's notion of symbol
can only be used as a stepping stone on which to construct the things
you need, on a case by case basis.

I interpret this as "Emacs supplies only a basic notion of symbol".

Since xref inches closer to understanding the semantics of the user's

programming language it might want to introduce some new abstraction

for a of a qualified name.  These come in two flavors

- object qualified

- namespace or package qualified

Trying to jigger emacs' symbol notion to cover qualified names as provided

in contemporary languages is likely to be a source of  continuing complaints

and frustration.

/john