From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer-list -> list-timers? Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:35:34 -0400 Message-ID: <87h8vwi0g9.fsf@yale.edu> References: <87zi9u1xx7.fsf@udel.edu> <83vakik2ad.fsf@gnu.org> <874ls21ngq.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87poale8vj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d16ljqec.fsf@yale.edu> <83a81pf9ge.fsf@gnu.org> <87vakdhul8.fsf@yale.edu> <87o9q4yjpu.fsf@udel.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506004592 2106 195.159.176.226 (21 Sep 2017 14:36:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:36:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 21 16:36:24 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dv2aW-00008B-HK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:36:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54024 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv2ac-0006Pg-Mc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:36:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49844) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv2a0-0006PM-1r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv2Zu-0004wK-7i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=59798 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv2Zt-0004vm-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:35:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dv2Zk-00069Z-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:35:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:h4g44TUzKrhnlVlM48g7Xd8U5HI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218634 Archived-At: Mark Oteiza writes: > jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: > >> The `-' naming convention also plays nicely with other >> things like `custom-unlispify-remove-prefixes', for >> example. And it is recommended in (info "(elisp) Coding >> Conventions"). > > Commands aren't custom variables. I was referring to the part that says: "You should choose a short word to distinguish your program from other Lisp programs. The names of all global symbols in your program, that is the names of variables, constants, and functions, should begin with that chosen prefix." >> So, I also have the same question as Ted: when is there a good >> reason to not follow the `-' naming convention? > > One was stated in the OP. Got it, thanks, I didn't know about the list- namespace, and I couldn't find anything about in the documentation. Perhaps it should be added. -- Jorge.