Re: CommonLisp namespace system (was Re: adding namespaces to emacs-lisp (better elisp?))

[Nic Ferrier]

David Engster <address@hidden> writes:

> Bastien writes:
>> You can have namespaces clashes too, it's purely conventional.
>>
>> So to me the only complaint is about symbols' length.
>>
>> But is that really such a big problem?
>>
>> The common practice for Emacs Lisp seems to favor explicit and long
>> names over terse and hard-to-decipher ones.  I guess the length of
>> the symbols is more due to this (good) practice than to the length
>> of prefixes.
>
> For me, the main problem with the length of symbols is that I
> intuitively tend to avoid writing them. For instance, I usually avoid
> using defstructs for nicely wrapping global state, because always
> writing things like
>
> (setf (my-prefix-struct-somevalue my-prefix--struct) 'foobar)
>
> is just verbose and tiresome.

This is half the reason I want to do something about namespaces. When
names get very long indeed even the spaces start to disappear.