From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Renaming some functions Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 17:25:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83k11rojyi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zhaoo2j1.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="125017"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 16:26:30 2020 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 1jVc3B-000WRt-Hp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 16:26:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39478 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVc3A-0000cl-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 10:26:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46844) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVc2j-00008Y-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 10:26:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVc2i-0005BQ-Io; Mon, 04 May 2020 10:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4631 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVc2h-0002rJ-Ts; Mon, 04 May 2020 10:26:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 03 May 2020 22:59:39 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248822 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 22:59:39 -0400 > > >> multibyte-string-p => string-multibyte-p > >> > >> Any objection? > > > > We are not renaming anything, we are discussing aliases that could > > make discoverability easier. > > Yes, and a general discussion is pointless (because I'm not interested > in a general renaming. Only in a few specific ones). Hence this specific > proposition which should be considered in isolation. You want to actually rename this? Then you know the drill: leave the old name as an obsolete alias, wait for 10 years, then remove the alias. However, based on what Richard wrote, maybe we should have both of these functions ;-)