From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: argument names for define-obsolete-*-alias Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:00:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <17068.54987.233487.611012@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118624338 8384 80.91.229.2 (13 Jun 2005 00:58:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:58:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 13 02:58:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhdHb-0006sP-9d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 02:58:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhdMI-0002jj-3x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhdM0-0002gk-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:03:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhdLy-0002fj-Kz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhdLy-0002fG-GH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.198] (helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DhdKh-0000SD-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:01:43 -0400 Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so76404nfe for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:00:44 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=N6l8fFNc6yDV+GaN/fwsli3Kb/uoI9XaS6dKROZypHnsxb0j0PDT42YRXLUJx1esOFEzD7KBJjTCw5uQLcC8zMTabLCGKUXVhlwaPqQYutmO/SZr3gg7uAvMvgAPGolGXsLJzSgD07X4dEPSCOk87KSq4wWpHi5J+0v2paWcqEQ= Original-Received: by 10.48.4.10 with SMTP id 10mr64901nfd; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.250.5 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <17068.54987.233487.611012@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Content-Disposition: inline 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:38683 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38683 On 6/13/05, Nick Roberts wrote: > NEW is an argument, not part of the function name, so I wouldn't expect > it to create a new symbol. I don't understand this. > These functions/macros are also defined in > XEmacs with similar argument names which makes it clearer that they > really do the same thing. In which way being the same on XEmacs makes it clearer what they mean? :-) > I think these are confusing. OBSOLETE and CURRENT would only be > obsolete and current _after_ the function/macro has been evaluated. > Maybe FROM and TO would work. Whatever works. > On a related note, I find the arguments for defvaralias and defalias more > confusing than those for define-obsolete-*-alias. For me is just the opposite. --=20 /L/e/k/t/u