From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: seq.el and the complexity of Emacs Lisp. Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:58:31 +0200 Message-ID: <835y2d3hco.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83r0l32hi1.fsf@gnu.org> <87bkc6ftgq.fsf@dataswamp.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39496"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 07 12:59:34 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1r0Kjz-000A4X-PJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2023 12:59:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r0KjL-0005Mg-DD; Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:58:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r0KjG-0005Kr-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:58:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r0KjD-0006lY-EU; Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:58:43 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=3ThSYUWjpw0n4ET6gLWZcn4YWowarE9RX+de5BelFxg=; b=cq/xe2lmq0pX BincNzIwNJ8+TyQmMXLkfXSVJT3C15oHGX6e/Pedcto6Ldb+LVoF67UrMBrNjmoeB+ysY9dOXa17j 6/azvDP03+FaaDPhmEnNKAvBGu7a30kynCtuMIP6gJTjzAAWejc1JLd2JWByXhpw62URfrKp3ndwh FkEfn+TlPrlV2gY2QT4QfD9ERk19zB72d0ufZQtRx/DZhVZeJOsBvZnmBQa1ok/XZeYnB4ko1aSr6 76bDZXUvZmRXs3HnYJQdjfXz4Yh9cpTtk+K2vWb1YwWmv5ghfB2ys6VhiGXBgOk+69quJxKFjwRCI TAuplOSpgNFDW+Hpdr8Gdw==; In-Reply-To: <87bkc6ftgq.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:43:49 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:312299 Archived-At: > From: Emanuel Berg > Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:43:49 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> I looked at seq.el to try to get an idea what those > >> functions do. It was difficult to get this from the doc > >> strings, because it wasn't explicitly stated which ones are > >> for users and which ones are internal. > > > > Our convention nowadays is that any function/variable that > > has 2 dashes after the prefix, in this case seq--SOMETHING, > > is internal, and all the others are public. > > Are you only allowed to use some--private-function in the same > file where it is defined? That's the convention, yes. > To what extent has this convention been upheld in the > Emacs source? It is upheld quite closely.