Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Style system Was: Inconsistency in loading/saving .el files

[Ralf Angeli]

* Pierre Lorenzon (2008-05-17) writes:

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>
>> So at the current point of time, I would prefer not having this
>> dependency.

AOL

>   OK clear ! But I don't know if I will be courageous enough to
>   write a reimplementation of the style system without
>   eieio. If you tell me in few months that eieio is definitely
>   not acceptable I'll probably try to convert my code. 

I can tell you now that at least for me it is definitely not acceptable.
The code in AUCTeX should be easily maintainable by anyone familiar with
plain Emacs Lisp.  Having to learn the workings of something like eieio
would add another barrier for understanding the code.

You haven't explained for what purpose you need and object-oriented
approach.  If it is only for data structures you could use plists.
Wouldn't this suffice?

-- 
Ralf