From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Special Event: Davin reveals his own personal additions to Emacs. Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 08:57:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10327"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel To: Davin Pearson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 10 14:58:33 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oAWW9-0002Yn-Ij for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:58:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46006 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oAWW8-0003lx-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 08:58:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oAWV2-0002Rf-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 08:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:22982) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oAWUz-0007JL-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 08:57:23 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 37E5680699; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 08:57:20 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 0AF148054F; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 08:57:19 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1657457839; bh=akTLxSkguQAU8DMcBNXTX9yL2iogsrnx7xPjDm40/Iw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=Fb/KvuxIB1WLI3VvlZkQmDF5XSN4R9cfQRphAwbmhjy48b2rmsNVELzDF5k0lfP7S nmNmLl+axD59PUtSnwX8Dd7AOLSqGHqXpV+tigwslVQ7h+fCpsVWiYIbR0hovzbkjB RdgFEXZOvIGUitB4f/ru4WrVBjmI+34yD25uGj7ffATR//JMXAAHge8Pz2yAzbqaCb WfuOZFwtOljNadliDUUWY6NGF0zHJ4XvEzlXCd1AMXzWp32UBtlcMHjcjFIur9XTpq +kBroWG3bjp2+cDR8680sRsVBnSOuTcCp69pZQZiKkWqgtGlRtXSNqXyrObDNHANDC 0y6wSNC+rAk/g== Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [45.72.196.165]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D0AD12020A; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 08:57:18 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Davin Pearson's message of "Sun, 10 Jul 2022 15:39:04 +1200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:292011 Archived-At: > In all my code I use the practice of prefixing all of my functions and > variables with dmp where DMP stands for Davin Max Pearson > which is my name. I think it's a fairly common practice. I tend to use `my-` for that purpose, hoping that there's a chance we can avoid having someone write a package that uses this `my-` prefix, whereas it seems unlikely that noone will ever write a package that uses a prefix which conflicts with someone's initials. Maybe we should officially declare the `my-` prefix as reserved for the end-user. > I am unsure of just how useful this practice is for adding to the > Emacs sources. When distributing code for other people to use, such a "personal prefix" should be replaced with something else, indeed. Stefan