with-namespace

https://github.com/Wilfred/with-namespace.el.git

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with-namespace.el

Many elisp packages already use my-project-foo' and my-project–internal-bar' naming conventions. `with-namespace' allows you to define a collection of functions, variables etc without having to write the prefix in front of every symbol.

It works by simply rewriting all the symbols of top-level definitions, so the following code:

(with-namespace "my-project"
    (defun foo () (-greet "world"))
    (defun -greet (thing) (format "hello %s" thing))
    (defvar bar 3 "some docstring"))

compiles to:

(defun my-project-foo () (my-project--greet "world"))
(defun my-project--greet (thing) (format "hello %s" thing))
(defvar my-project-bar 3 "some docstring")

By producing code that many elisp developers would write anyway, `with-namespace' does not require downstream users to even know about it.

Todo

• Document
• Explore importing from other namespaces (everything, public only, named only)

Changelog

• 1.1 – Added support for defmacro, defconst and defstruct, and allow more to be added by the user
• 1.0 – Initial release

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