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- From: gamin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Boyer)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Re: Prefix in Emacs Lisp "packages"
- Message-ID: <GAMIN.92Aug20155419@pellan.ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 19:54:19 GMT
- References: <1532@lysator.liu.se> <9208190614.AA01268@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 18 Aug 92 22:14:06 GMT
-
- >>>>> Richard Stallman writes:
-
- >The character `:' has no advantage over the character `-'.
- >And it makes names look less uniform.
-
- That *IS* the advantage; to distinguish package names from symbol
- names. And, as long as the FSF sticks to the '-' convention, it
- allows the rest of us to know we're using a non-standard library.
-
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