From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CL function's docstrings Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 02:48:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116488419 3022 80.91.229.2 (19 May 2005 07:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 07:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 19 09:40:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYfZg-0007S7-O5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:36:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYfcH-00005o-JR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 03:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYfHw-0005CA-DL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 03:17:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYfHv-0005Aw-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 03:17:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYfCQ-0000vA-T8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 03:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DYeyM-0006NT-FF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 02:57:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DYepa-0008PT-7G; Thu, 19 May 2005 02:48:30 -0400 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Wed, 18 May 2005 10:09:54 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37337 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37337 > How about if you do whatever is best so as to use the best possible names > in each function? OK. That's even better. assuming there's no interest in maintaining absolute argument-name consistency between functions (which doesn't exist now, to be fair). There is no need for "absolute argument-name consistency". However, coherence between functions is one factor in what makes any particular argument name better or worse.