From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 52954@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52954: Rename split-string to string-split
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:09:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735lqptu3.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnNGHs9ws-PFSPSJtXYpj05NXhvsFxa6ftJZDOUnORLAw@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sun, 2 Jan 2022 11:46:37 -0500")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> The function `split-string' does not follow use the `string-' prefix
> that we use for many other string functions. How about renaming it and
> introducing an alias for the old name?
We've got a whole bunch of functions that are
`something-something-string', and I'd rather not rename them all. So
I'm leaning towards "no" (because having several names for functions
that are commonly used makes reading code more of a chore), and I'm
therefore closing this bug report.
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2022-01-02 16:46 bug#52954: Rename split-string to string-split Stefan Kangas
2022-01-14 9:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-01-14 9:43 ` Stefan Kangas
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