From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 10:32:20 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aeedfdcf-fea5-4be2-aeea-cd9127450bf7@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvtekydf.fsf@mithlond.arda>
> It seems to me that Emacs users often use "my-" prefix or person's
> initials (like "tl-" or "tl/") as prefix when writing their private
> extensions and configuration.
Yes. As in any other language.
> However, there is no officially documented prefix which Emacs
> promises to leave for users.
Right. As for any other language (?).
> So I suggest making such promise and documenting it in info
> page "(elisp) Coding Conventions"
Why? What is the problem for which this would be a good solution?
Are you afraid that someone will create a function or variable
with prefix `my-', and that a user who uses that code will be
precluded from defining the same name, or that if s?he defines
another name that uses the same prefix s?he will be confused?
Did you encounter a real problem in this area?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-13 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-13 18:16 Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users Teemu Likonen
2015-12-13 18:32 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-12-13 18:56 ` Teemu Likonen
2015-12-14 20:31 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-15 18:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-12-15 18:29 ` John Yates
2015-12-15 19:01 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-15 20:32 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-16 3:12 ` Evans Winner
2015-12-16 6:41 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-16 0:16 ` David Reitter
2015-12-16 1:26 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-16 1:39 ` Chad Brown
2015-12-16 1:52 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-16 4:41 ` Chad Brown
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2022-07-10 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-10 16:03 ` Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users Teemu Likonen
2022-07-10 16:59 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-10 18:11 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-07-10 19:20 ` Tim Cross
2022-07-11 3:17 ` Richard Stallman
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