Re: Proper namespaces in Elisp

[João Távora]

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 7:32 PM Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 5/9/20 11:23 AM, João Távora wrote:
> > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 6:45 PM Daniel Colascione <address@hidden
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> >     Can you give a concrete example of a situation in which it'd be
> >     useful to
> >     do that? I think other people on the thread are right about
> >     discouraging
> >     bulk naked symbol imports.
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> > For a submodule that you do control, it's not such a bad idea.
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> Concrete example? If you want inheritance, you can get it with EIEIO.

When writing a namespaced foo-tests.el library for your namespaced
foo.el library, for example.  Or for a big enough foo program, a foo-utils.el
that exports utils that only foo.el needs and noone else.

EIEIO is Elisp's CLOS, AFAIK.  I use it, but don't know what it has to do with
namespacing.

João