From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Double hyphens in variable names. Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:56:46 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F7C74EE.5000001@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065121444 31774 80.91.224.253 (2 Oct 2003 19:04:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 19:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 02 21:04:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A58k6-0002YT-00 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:04:02 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A58k5-0007ES-00 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:04:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A58hl-0000pq-LB for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A58dm-00088h-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A58d0-0007l8-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:57:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A58cy-0007jv-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:56:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A58cw-0004Xa-00 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 20:56:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A58cv-0004XS-00 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 20:56:37 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A58cv-00081b-00 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 20:56:37 +0200 Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16886 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16886 Lute Kamstra wrote: > What is the significance of a double hyphen in a symbol name anyway? I suspect it was someone's attempt to emulate Common Lisp's use of a colon between a package name and a symbol name without actually implying that a package system exists in Emacs Lisp. Blech, get rid of them! -- Kevin Rodgers