Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:55:18 -0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:01:33 -0800
> >>
> >> I think there is another drawback of Emacs' prefix based namespace
> >> convention: that of longer local (private, non-public, unexported, etc.)
> >> names.
> >
> > Why is that a drawback?  (It's a serious question.)
> 
> Thanks for asking.
> 
> I have to admit that my answer boils down to familiarity.  I'd like
> programming in Emacs Lisp to feel more like the other programming
> languages I'm more familiar with.
> [...]

Thanks.  However, my question was specifically about the "longer local
names" aspect, and it looks like you've answered a slightly different
question...