From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Howard Melman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master baf1a7a4a0: Turn gv-synthetic-place into a function Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:05:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <835yhkzmn8.fsf@gnu.org> <878rmfx51p.fsf@web.de> <831qs7zj9e.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8piec78.fsf@web.de> <834jx2xphy.fsf@gnu.org> <878rmenmd4.fsf@web.de> <87sfklgmba.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87edw4bzrp.fsf@web.de> <83y1ucu4k9.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1ub7kjp.fsf@gnus.org> <83wn9vqrxa.fsf@gnu.org> <83bkr6r4s6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4057"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/wT43qCFoQC+JpfI20LodrrMEVw= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 23 21:02:17 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 1obnwH-0000qO-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:02:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50116 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obnwG-0006sm-3i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obn3f-0004An-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:33672) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obn3e-0005Pl-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:05:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1obn3c-00015d-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 20:05:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:55:48 -0400 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:296077 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Then I think using just one term is clearer and I agree with >> Lars about avoiding "place" as much as possible. I think GV >> would be a clearer parameter name than PLACE. > > Maybe GVAR is a bit less cryptic, then? GV has the advantages of being shorter and matching gv.el and should be clear since docstrings should use "generalized variable" at least once. But I'd be fine with GVAR instead. -- Howard