From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer-list -> list-timers? Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:26:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zi9u1xx7.fsf@udel.edu> <83vakik2ad.fsf@gnu.org> <874ls21ngq.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87poale8vj.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506018504 26310 195.159.176.226 (21 Sep 2017 18:28:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 21 20:28:20 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6Cy-0006aJ-1O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:28:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55040 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6D5-0004l5-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:28:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36825) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6Be-0004Oz-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:27:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6Bb-0007KY-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40084) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6BS-00075Y-RC; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:26:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6BR-0003ww-T3; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:26:45 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:49:06 -0700 (PDT)) 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:218644 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > It is a bad idea, in general, to use "list" as a verb in function > etc. names in Emacs Lisp. 'list...' is our naming convention for commands to show the list of whatevers, and we should stick to it for consistency's sake. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.