Re: Do we have to worry about the names of generic functions?

[Rob Browning]

Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:

> You'd only do the above when you *know* a module imported has
> e.g. "quit". You can't do much about stuff in modules you don't
> import; I wonder what "#:generics merge" does when it encounters a
> procedure and generic that have the same name...

So I suppose it'd be up to the end user to do this when necessary
unless merge handles it somehow.

> That aside, another reason I think prefixes are basically unecessary
> is that the importer can always do something like 
>
> (use-modules ((g-wrap) #:renamer (symbol-prefix-proc 'gw:)))

Good point.  I didn't realize we already had support for that in 1.6.

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