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bug#10781: EIEIO namespace use


From: David Engster
Subject: bug#10781: EIEIO namespace use
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:28:41 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier writes:
> EIEIO needs to be cleaned up so it doesn't intrude all over
> the namespace.
> The worst offenders include:
> - `this'.
> - `slot-*'.
> - `constructor', `destructor'.
> - `delete-instance'.
> - `initialize-instance'.
> - `clone'.
> - `data-debug*'.
> - `make-instance'.
> - `oref'.
> - `oset'.
> - `with-slots'.
> - `object-*'.
> - `class-*'.
> - `next-method-p'.
> - `call-next-method'.
> - error symbols (like no-next-method).
> - ... probably `defmethod', `defclass', and `defgeneric'.

I think this should be a goal for the next merge, but I'm at a loss
regarding how this should be tackled without, you know, breaking
practically every bit of code in CEDET and probably others. Do you have
a suggestion? Maybe even creating EIEIOv2 and slowly porting CEDET to
that?

-David





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