Re: adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?)

[Nic Ferrier]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I don't understand what would be different for my implementation
>> strategy. When intern is called directly as a function the evaluator
>> still knows about file local variables and so can detect whether it is
>> in a package or not.
>
>> What am I missing?
>
> When intern is called directly, the buffer/file from which the code was
> read probably doesn't even exist any more.

I do see your point... but that information will have to be persisted
such that intern knows whether it is part of a package or not. That's
the whole basis of the system I think, that intern have that
information.


Nic