From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mh-e 6.2 imminent Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:15:07 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200210210726.g9L7QI1l014171@gbr.newt.com> <200210231948.g9NJmdBG015635@gbr.newt.com> <200210240725.g9O7PKI11467@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035663490 12527 80.91.224.249 (26 Oct 2002 20:18:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:18:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, wohler@newt.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 185XNp-0003Fv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 22:18:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 185XR8-0001yY-00 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 22:21:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 185XLz-0005tT-00; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:16:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 185XL2-0005QO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 185XKt-0005M8-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 185XKt-0005La-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:15:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 185XKt-0002MV-00; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:15:07 -0400 Original-To: miles@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on 25 Oct 2002 14:50:00 +0900) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8815 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8815 One theory I have is that boolean variables are usually named as if they were verbs, e.g. `do-something', which implicitly tags them as being boolean (and which is why `-flag' seems redundant). This is an interesting line of thought. It could be that the suffix -flag is useful for some kinds of names and not for others, depending on this grammatical criterion. For instance, consider `file-precious-flag': there, `-flag' seems to be useful, but `file-precious' does not have a verb. Perhaps that is why `-flag' is useful there.