From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Warning compiling obarray.el on master
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:32:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvo9wyfszq.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83fuiayaoa.fsf@gnu.org
> Perhaps, but the danger of clashing names doesn't go away with these
> measures, it just gets lower.
True, but that applies to most/all global variables we have.
And it's important to take into account that the reason why the danger
is reduced is not just because "longer names are more rare and contain
more entropy" or something like that, but because the longer name better
describes the variable, so it reduces the risk that someone else will
use that same identifier to refer to something different.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-18 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-17 8:59 Warning compiling obarray.el on master Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-18 12:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-18 13:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-18 13:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-03-18 14:00 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-03-18 14:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-03-18 16:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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