Re: [PATCH] Desktop mode saves mark-ring too verbosely

[Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>]

>>>>> Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org> writes:
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov wrote:

[…]

 >>> +(defvar desktop-var-serdes-funs

[…]

 >>> +  "Table of serdes functions for variables.

 >> It doesn’t look like a common abbreviation,

 > It's a common abbreviation for parallel ↔ serial conversion circuits,
 > which are reasonably analogous to functions that convert program data
 > to/from a text stream.  And circuitry is a domain for which it's
 > common to share terminology with software.

	Incidentally, reading and development of digital circuits is one
	of my hobbies.  Yet, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an
	abbreviation before in that domain, either.

 >> so I guess “serializer, deserializer” should rather be spelled in
 >> full.

 > This table is something that only programmers, not users, will need
 > to understand or modify, so using a technical abbreviation isn't a
 > problem.  Emacs already has abbreviated names such as ⌜fboundp⌝ and
 > ⌜fmakunbound⌝ for programmer-only things, instead of
 > ⌜function-bound-predicate⌝ and ⌜function-make-unbound⌝.

	Still, their respective docstrings spell the term in full:

(fboundp SYMBOL): Return t if SYMBOL's function definition is not void.
(fmakunbound SYMBOL): Make SYMBOL's function definition be void.

	Contrary to the docstring proposed.

 > So if anything, ⌜funs⌝ isn't abbreviated _enough_. ;-)

	Then just drop that part.

[…]

 > BTW, you quoted only me, but you CCed only Stefan.

	It was unintended, sorry.  Unless under special circumstances,
	I post my followups strictly to the list, – not to the
	participants of the discussion directly.

 > I almost missed your message, until I checked the mailing list.

	(Hope you’ll check the mailing list this time, too.)

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