GNU bug report logs - #10781
EIEIO namespace use

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Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:42:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.0.92

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-02/msg00199.html

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From: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 10781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Eric M. Ludlam" <eric <at> siege-engine.com>
Subject: bug#10781: EIEIO namespace use
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:28:41 +0200

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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