From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46899: 28.0.50; Inconsistency in Elisp manual section Emacs Lisp Coding Conventions Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:21:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877dmoqmvy.fsf@disroot.org> <87mtvivmxz.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7158"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jorge+list@disroot.org, 46899@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 06 06:22:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPOG-0001ky-P8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 06:22:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40174 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPOF-0000DM-BY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:22:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60528) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPO8-0000DC-KL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:22:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPO6-0004zj-DX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:22:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPO6-0001Tm-8m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:22:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2021 05:22:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46899 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 46899-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46899.16150080785635 (code B ref 46899); Sat, 06 Mar 2021 05:22:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46899) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Mar 2021 05:21:18 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35886 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPNN-0001Sp-Nz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:21:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42568) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPNM-0001Sd-3G for 46899@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:21:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:32981) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPNG-0004RR-OE; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:21:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPNC-0002Je-90; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:21:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87mtvivmxz.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:38:32 +0100) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:201594 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Constructs that define a function or variable should be macros, not > > functions, and their names should start with @samp{define-}. > That sounds like what we're actually using. > I think removing the bit about defun/defvar might make the most sense > here (or just moving the define- thing up there). Opinions? LGTM. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)