From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Dunn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: New Package for GNU ELPA Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 19:37:40 -0400 Message-ID: <87wpmjni2j.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Ian Dunn NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464133101 30786 80.91.229.3 (24 May 2016 23:38:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 23:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 25 01:38:20 2016 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 1b5Lu0-00013y-2U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 01:38:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55931 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5Ltz-00013z-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2016 19:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57180) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5LtQ-00011g-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2016 19:37:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5LtP-0002yE-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2016 19:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5LtP-0002y3-Ro; Tue, 24 May 2016 19:37:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [2604:6000:1010:176:d06f:8928:a420:e516] (port=35874 helo=escafil) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1b5LtO-00043i-AP; Tue, 24 May 2016 19:37:42 -0400 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:203989 Archived-At: On 2016-05-22, Drew Adams wrote: > If this is a package in GNU ELPA, shouldn't its thingies have a > package prefix? >=20 > IOW, shouldn't `define(-mode)-hook-helper' be called something like > `hkhlp-define(-mode)-hook-helper'? >=20 > I'm not saying it should, as the rules for GNU ELPA packages are not > clear to me. But if its packages follow the general rule then they > should have a prefix, no? >=20 According to the "Emacs Lisp Coding Conventions" section of the "GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual": "Constructs that define a function or variable should be macros, not functions, and their names should start with =E2=80=98define-=E2=80=99." That might make sense for `remove-hook-helper', though. --=20 Ian Dunn