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: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:31:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83sggmxq8n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> <87v9ljo5d0.fsf@bernoul.li> <87ftcnxu5m.fsf@bernoul.li> <83y2qezlpd.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="47729"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, philippe.vaucher@gmail.com, jonas@bernoul.li, kyle@kyleam.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 29 17:37:11 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 1jTolq-000CIG-Jl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:37:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44896 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTolp-0002fS-JD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60700) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTohD-0001Cf-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTohA-0000xe-75; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3750 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jToh8-0002x1-SJ; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:32:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:32:00 -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:248154 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:32:00 -0400 > Cc: Adam Porter , Eli Zaretskii , > Jonas Bernoulli , Kyle Meyer , > Emacs developers > > FWIW, I completely agree with this. > Emacs's own "core" library should follow the "prefix" convention. > The resulting "structuring" of the names would help discoverability > > This was a major motivation for the `seq` and `map` packages, and maybe > we should keep doing that with more things (e.g. add a `list` package > where all the list functions get a new name using the `list` prefix, or > add a `process` package were all the process related primitives are > given a "process-"prefix, ...). Sure, if we don't mind having much more symbols, why not? But someone would have to come up with such a classification, and that may not always be easy.