Re: Proper namespaces in Elisp

[Daniel Colascione]

On May 9, 2020 1:37:16 AM Andrea Corallo <address@hidden> wrote:

> Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > So there are three basic operations we can support: in Python syntax,
> > 1) from PKG import * (exposing PKG.foo as foo), 2) import PKG as p
> > (exposing PKG.foo as p.foo) and 3), from PKG import foo (exposing
> > PKG.foo as foo).  CL supports all three. I'm most interested in
> > supporting #2, since that's closest to existing use. The lexspace
> > prototype posted earlier today supports #3 and #1 (the latter via
> > lexspace inheritance) only, but I think we should do #2 instead
>
> I suspect we'll need all threes anyway.

Why? What problem is actually being solved by #1 and #3? If the problem is 
that package names long enough to avoid collisions are too annoying to 
type, we can address this problem with #2.