From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Renaming some functions
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:15:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jVRaH-000154-33@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4kswg1gf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 03 May 2020 17:21:31 -0400)
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> Here's my first concrete renaming proposition:
> multibyte-string-p => string-multibyte-p
> Any objection?
The actual behavior of the function is to return t if the argument is
a multibyte string, nil for any other type. The clear name for that
is multibyte-string-p.
string-multibyte-p implies a function that accepts only strings as arguments
and returns t if the argument is multibyte.
ISTR that I thought about this when I defined that function, to choose
which of those two names to give it.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-04 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-03 21:21 Renaming some functions Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 0:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 2:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-05 2:53 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-05 7:18 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 3:15 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-05-04 5:11 ` Stefan Monnier
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