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From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 10:05:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGK7Mr7_3jeHtA3nxamPBsCoveSchhdNjrBxDaAxgiwKDMrc0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3777996c-7b3f-4d44-9636-f18aaff76a65@default>

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>
> It wasn't intended to be taken literally.  But
> the point behind it (there was one) was just
> that naming is hard.  It's not easy to find a
> reasonable and consistent way to name things,
> including functions.  (I think we agree about
> that, at least.)


Yes, naming is one of the hardest thing. Still when we see names that could
be improved and where most agree shouldn't we try?

You make it sound like because naming is hard bad names are ok, or that any
new name will be barely better as naming is hard. If I strawman your
position we could name every new function as function5318759 with an
incremental number because hey naming is hard we might as well give up :-)

I'm joking of course :-)

Philippe

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-03  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-02 18:28 Add some aliases for re-related functions Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 18:43   ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 21:21   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:27     ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03  8:33       ` Michael Albinus
2020-05-03 19:07         ` Drew Adams
2020-05-02 19:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-02 19:48   ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 20:10   ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-02 20:13     ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-03 14:16       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04  3:09         ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 14:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:12             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 17:35               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:42                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 17:46                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:53                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 21:09     ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-02 21:51       ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-03  9:43         ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-03 15:00           ` 조성빈
2020-05-02 22:41       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-03 17:14         ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-04 10:07       ` João Távora
2020-05-03 14:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 16:20       ` Yuri Khan
2020-05-03 16:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 16:50           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 21:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:10   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 22:18     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-02 22:49     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 23:13       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03  3:55         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04  0:29           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04  3:11             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:44   ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03  3:26     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-03  4:37       ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03  8:05         ` Philippe Vaucher [this message]
2020-05-03  9:55           ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-03 10:26             ` tomas
2020-05-03 15:15             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 19:47           ` Drew Adams
2020-05-04  7:32             ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04  8:20               ` Sending plaintext with Gmail (was: Add some aliases for re-related functions) Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04  8:45                 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 15:09                 ` Sending plaintext with Gmail Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 15:25                   ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04 15:29                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-05  8:13                       ` HTML display in Gnus (was: Sending plaintext with Gmail) Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-05  8:24                         ` HTML display in Gnus Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-05  9:26                           ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-07-17 17:14                           ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04 15:39                     ` Sending plaintext with Gmail Andreas Schwab
2020-05-04 16:51               ` Add some aliases for re-related functions Drew Adams
2020-05-04 17:10               ` Drew Adams
2020-05-04 18:17                 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 18:33                   ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05  2:48             ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04  3:08         ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 10:16       ` João Távora
2020-05-04  3:04 ` Richard Stallman

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