Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> By its very nature it is an intrusive package, as it defines functions,
>> macros and advice outside of the "namespace", but I don't see any way
>> around that if transparent compatibility is to be provided (anything
>> else would just replicate dash, s, f, ...).
>
> I think this uncleanliness is a bit risky.  Better put the definitions
> in their own namespace.

The point here is to not to have any separate namespace, so that you can
just can put core packages into ELPA without doing any rewrites.

What's the concrete risk here?

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