From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: abstracting Lisp strings - macro name convention?
Date: 03 Jul 2002 22:16:18 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bs9pj6jh.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5xfzz0c3dz.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>
storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> > STRING_REF(obj,index)
> > STRING_SET(obj,index,newbyteval)
>
> Wouldn't it be more consistent to name these
>
> STRING_AREF(obj,index)
> STRING_ASET(obj,index,newbyteval)
Why? `aref' is a noun-verb pair meaning `array reference'; since
strings are generally thought of as _being_ arrays, not _containing_
arrays,`string array reference' sounds redundant.
A traditional name in lisp, btw, is `sref', but it's not used that much,
so I think it makes sense to use a longer name here.
-Miles
--
Freedom's just another word, for nothing left to lose --Janis Joplin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-03 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-30 23:13 abstracting Lisp strings - macro name convention? Ken Raeburn
2002-07-02 7:37 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-03 2:09 ` Ken Raeburn
2002-07-03 13:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-03 14:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-07-03 13:16 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-07-03 13:17 ` Henrik Enberg
2002-07-04 7:07 ` Richard Stallman
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