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Re: Emacs Lisp's future
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Clément Pit--Claudel |
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Re: Emacs Lisp's future |
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Tue, 11 Oct 2016 00:18:12 -0400 |
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On 2016-10-11 00:06, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> BTW, someone (Raman?) on this thread said that namespaces save typing.
> That's not exactly right; that goal is achieved with autocompletion (as
> he already noticed). What namespaces really do is twofold:
>
> 1. Help avoid collisions, and
>
> 2. (last but not least!) save on reading.
>
> Long function names are really bad.
I think nameless makes both of these a non-issue. You get "import x as y"
using custom prefixes (such as fl: for font-lock), and for your own code
there's no typing (C-- inserts the package prefix) and no wasted space.
Bottom line: I don't see much use for proper namespaces :)
Clément.
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