From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
Cc: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer-list -> list-timers?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:28:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dv6DW-0007f5-Vf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vakcyjt2.fsf@udel.edu> (message from Mark Oteiza on Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:30:49 -0400)
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> >> That kind of bugs me about `M-x list-packages' etc. (there's a whole
> >> bunch of them, like `list-holidays' and so on). Is there any rule
> >> about when to make an exception to the `<package>-function' naming
> >> convention? If not, should there be one?
The convention is that functions in a package (and variables) should
have names which show their relationship to that package. Usually we
do that by using the package name as a prefix, but that is not the
only way to do it. It is ok to use the package name (or some form of
it) later on in the name.
So if there is a package called frob that works with things called frobs,
it is natural and ok for it to contain a command 'list-frobs'.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-21 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-16 15:11 [PATCH] timer-list -> list-timers? Mark Oteiza
2017-09-16 15:31 ` raman
2017-09-16 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-16 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-16 18:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-09-17 3:13 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-19 23:39 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-20 11:41 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-20 14:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-09-20 16:17 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2017-09-20 18:52 ` Tom Tromey
2017-09-20 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-20 22:29 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2017-09-21 0:32 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-21 14:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-09-21 14:35 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2017-09-21 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-21 0:30 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-21 18:28 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-09-20 17:49 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-21 18:26 ` Richard Stallman
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