Re: Word For Today: “Uglification”

On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 08:03:50 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

That’s true, but AFAICT it’s exactly what Lawrence is complaining about:
there’s nothing in the language spec to help those thousand other
libraries avoid name clashes.

My specific complaint was about temporary names being used internal to
library macros. It’s a problem that is essentially impossible to solve
with string-based macro processors.