Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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

>> 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?
>
> I think in practice it's usually not a problem, but I'd be surprised if
> there aren't counter examples.

We can just start slowly and see whether any problems occur.

> So for a library that wants to do it in
> a somewhat predictable/systematic way, I think it's much simple to have
> all the definitions in a specific namespace (like `compat28-`), and then
> it's a small matter of have a trivial `compat28.el` library that comes
> with Emacs-28 which has a bunch of `defalias`.

The main point here is to be able to put things that are in core into
ELPA, too.  We don't want to have code in core that goes

(compat28-when-let (...)
  )

so I don't quite understand what you're suggesting here.

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