Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Helmut Eller]

On Fri, Oct 07 2016, Nikolay Kudryavtsev wrote:

> Is there even a reason to try evolving Elisp into something else?

A major pain point of Emacs Lisp is the lack of module system or other
namespace mechanism.  The prefixes all over the place make Elisp code
quite verbose and ugly.  Evolving Elisp into a language with a module
system would be a "good thing".

Helmut