From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 26564@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, rms@gnu.org,
kaushal.modi@gmail.com
Subject: bug#26564: Document that only functions and not variables can end with "-p"
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:24:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ftjvkcwb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73e7bcd4-768a-4ac6-8a41-6fa1acf55c76@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:22:42 +0000 (UTC))
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 26564@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, kaushal.modi@gmail.com
>
> > -p is used in function names.
> > For a variable, it is better to end in -flag.
>
> `-flag' has been used only, AFAIK, for user options.
User options are variables, and I see no reason not to use it for
variables that are not user options.
If you want to see the text that is now actually in the manual, please
use the cgit interface at savannah. I suggest to do that before
arguing further about this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-14 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-19 15:47 bug#26564: Document that only functions and not variables can end with "-p" Kaushal Modi
2017-04-19 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-19 16:22 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-19 21:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-04-19 22:04 ` Drew Adams
2017-04-19 22:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-12 20:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-12 20:47 ` Kaushal Modi
2019-10-12 23:18 ` Drew Adams
2019-10-14 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
2019-10-14 2:22 ` Drew Adams
2019-10-14 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-14 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-19 17:26 ` Drew Adams
2017-04-19 21:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-04-19 22:01 ` Drew Adams
2017-04-19 22:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-04-19 22:28 ` Drew Adams
2017-04-20 1:42 ` Drew Adams
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