[Python-3000] [Python-ideas] Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

skip at pobox.com writes:
 > 
 >     Stephen> FWIW, I can tell you that Skip will get pushback from me if he
 >     Stephen> proposes registering those extensions in XEmacs's
 >     Stephen> auto-mode-alist.  I won't absolutely veto it, but I'll
 >     Stephen> certainly suggest to the other reviewers that this is a bad
 >     Stephen> idea.
 > 
 > I would never ask for such a thing. "xyz.py" is fine by me for Python3
 > source files.

You personally wouldn't.  If users of Python-mode asked for it, you
would pass on the requests, though, I suppose.  And they will if those
extensions get registered in Windows as executable.

I've long thought what the Emacsen should do is learn to recognize
shebangs and other content-based file magic.  XEmacs *can*, I think
GNU can too, but we haven't worked out how to do it in a way that
interacts well with the extension recognition feature (which is what
Ye Olde Guard favors).