Re: Proper namespaces in Elisp

[Daniel Colascione]

On 5/6/20 8:12 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I like the idea of doing it in the reader (it has some nice advantages),
> > but the downside is it is then harder to special-case defining forms.
>
> The upside is that you don't need to recognize defining forms ;-)

I don't like reader magic. It complicates code logic. I know we talked 
about symbol-macrolet and macrolet as possible options and know why 
neither is quite the right thing, but I still think that a macro of the 
same general kind would work fine. Macros don't need to recognize 
defining forms if they macroexpand their bodies before walking them.