Re: dash.el [was: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs]

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 14.05.2020 08:12, Richard Stallman wrote:
>    > 2) The s- namespace: This has already happened. If we put a function
>    > called `s-starts-with' or `-map' into core, we will break quite a lot of
>    > MELPA. This would look poor and potentially like bad will.
>
> That would be blaming us for their treating us badly.
>
> I suppose some people might do that -- but I don't want to
> cringe in fear of it.

Regardless of who is to blame, doing that on our part would be 
counter-productive. So we're very unlikely to even do it.

Thus, the "s" namespace is unfortunately already taken.

If Elisp grew to support namespaces, that could be fixed, of course.