From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rant - Elisp terminology is deceptive
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:48:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wq4ddmwt.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rjy59Q15KrPtXJp41z50KlWKT5ls2JFr8EcJAZsMB4U@local
Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org> writes:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I tend to agree. This "default-value" and "setq-default" dates back
>> to the very beginning of time, tho.
>
> Would renaming them be acceptable, so long as the old names are kept
> as aliases for backward compatibility? I don't think the names
> ⌜global-value⌝, ⌜setq-global⌝, and ⌜set-global⌝ would cause any
> confusion with any other concepts in Emacs, and they're unlikely to
> conflict with anybody's custom code.
From etc/NEWS.18
** Functions `global-set' and `global-value' deleted.
These functions were never used except by mistake by users expecting
the functionality of `set-default' and `default-value'.
:-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-24 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-23 2:59 Rant - Elisp terminology is deceptive Kelly Dean
2015-01-23 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-24 0:41 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-24 0:48 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2015-01-24 3:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-24 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-24 10:32 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-24 11:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-24 10:30 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-24 11:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-24 23:24 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-25 9:16 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-26 3:52 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-26 8:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-05-22 3:44 [PATCH] Desktop mode saves mark-ring too verbosely Kelly Dean
2013-11-23 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-21 12:11 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-21 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 5:43 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-22 8:20 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-23 13:20 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-23 14:09 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-24 3:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-24 23:30 ` Elisp terminology (was: Re: [PATCH] Desktop mode saves mark-ring too verbosely) Kelly Dean
2015-01-25 9:49 ` Elisp terminology David Kastrup
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