Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
>> The stuff about programming conventions is beside the point;
>> either the programming language guarantees lexical binding
>> or it doesn't. You will recall we arrived here because
>> reasonable people made different assumptions about symbol LB.
>>
>
> Recall that maxima has the declare unspecial feature that makes symbols
> that were special no longer special. I think all the lisps we build with
> have this ability. But I'd rather make all special symbols follow the
> *convention*. Unfortunately, I don't think we can do this without a lot of
> manual work because we need to be able to tell if the variable is really
> the same as some other special variable in some other file.
I agree about it being nice to add earmuffs, but are there backwards
compatibility issues to worry about? About deciding on possible naming
conflicts, I wouldn't think it's too difficult. Something as short as LB
was pretty obvious to work out who was doing what. Presumably most
variables would be considerably easier.
Rupert
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