From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathieu Lirzin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:22:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87si5f0x2s.fsf@openmailbox.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <878u78b3hg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9lwyv33.fsf@gmail.com> <561C368F.6010306@cs.ucla.edu> <87oag3xb2i.fsf@gmail.com> <20151013114630.GA4613@acm.fritz.box> <87io6bou1j.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444739560 29081 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2015 12:32:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:32:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Oleh Krehel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 13 14:32:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlykg-0002R9-VV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:32:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlykg-0002ag-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:32:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60685) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlyji-0001kO-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:31:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlyjf-0001rZ-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:31:21 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp19.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.53]:35969) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlyjf-0001ph-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:31:19 -0400 Original-Received: by mail2.openmailbox.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 33D547C120E; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:31:18 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=openmailbox.org; s=openmailbox; t=1444739476; bh=v/IaYdpudy9e3Wj8Ik0EB58SXm3r3v2cUmCBjtAq92c=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Date:References:From; b=Sg8Hj7P1oNz2L6/6HXdXK45Z2mjcNTp923On6i8hRdMLpP97ER6Z7saq8CqCDHVlw 6QGA+WcZjCMKiG42LhxPc88oAGZP4DdUmgsIZd4Zrguy6vpM/CMbH5emgtdCXUxaK5 4cMQ0c2A5coczzLs7ZLGswwBw9sFakJzs1od+vos= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=openmailbox.org; s=openmailbox; t=1444739468; bh=v/IaYdpudy9e3Wj8Ik0EB58SXm3r3v2cUmCBjtAq92c=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Date:References:From; b=unX60N135ufEb5FYjqmwq7VJ4/Ta2yfZOneAXvLdoeOzkKgX8y7HuZZrxrXWvA3uU JclEO5F04xvHwBcMzsX1nc/+BrfHTD+qcxnxf/DUfvwZ3DV8/Zr08yCYhQQ2+iA+N2 kOkFLim/bYrCEGZX6G2yHqx12zH1ynngeA3Otwg4= In-Reply-To: <87io6bou1j.fsf@gmail.com> (Oleh Krehel's message of "Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:02:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 62.4.1.53 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191452 Archived-At: Oleh Krehel writes: > For exactly this reason (the confusion over 3 notations, 2 of which are > the same), I propose that we stick only to "const char *" and "char * const", > and don't use "char const *". This seems a good idea to me. It would be nice for this convention to be documented somewhere. I think this can be defined in GNU coding standards. Can you send this suggestion to bugs-standards@gnu.org? Thanks, -- Mathieu Lirzin