Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I may be missing something, but it strikes me as almost duplicating the
  > original problem, if libraries are allowed to define their own symbol
  > abbreviations.

That depends on how a library would specify them.  If it could be
arbitrary string substitutions, it might have this consequence.
Joao and I are talking about how to make it more controllable.

  > Similarly to what you said, what if one user wants to write a package
  > using magnar-string.el with the "^s-" abbreviation, but another user
  > wants to write a package using a hypothetical super.el with the same
  > abbreviation, and both magnar-string.el and super.el define a symbol
  > `foo'?

There is no conflict.  In the first package, s-foo expands into magnars-foo.
In the second package, s-foo expands into super-foo.
Neither one actually uses the symbol s-foo.

For that reason, we must not try to specify what the "canonical meaning"
of s-foo is.  It can have multiple ones.

If you wanted to use both magnars.el and super.el in one program,
you'd have to turn off the renamings for one or bot of those two.



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