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- From: weiner@ar_server.pts.mot.com (Bob Weiner)
- Subject: Re: Prefix in elisp packages
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- Organization: research
- Date: 20 Aug 92 19:22:02
- Message-ID: <WEINER.92Aug20192202@ar_server.pts.mot.com>
- In-Reply-To: ceder@lysator.liu.se's message of Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:00:44 GMT
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- In article <1532@lysator.liu.se> ceder@lysator.liu.se (Per Cederqvist) writes:
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- > In Common Lisp you reference a symbol in a package by saying
- > package:symbol. The normal convention in Emacs Lisp is to use
- > package-symbol instead.
-
- > I have seen that Epoch uses the Common Lisp convention, and I
- > like it. It makes the names more readable, in my opinion.
-
- > Is there any reason not to adopt the Common Lisp convention in
- > new packages?
-
- Richard Stallman doesn't want to break the file local variable
- convention which allows one to use:
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- variable:value
-
- instead of forcing people to use the convention of typing
- spaces between the two, as in:
-
- variable: value
-
- which is accepted but not required presently.
-
- However, I agree with you that package:variable would be more readable.
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