From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filesets
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:15:50 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1IjdSw-002KHlC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6josich.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:33:18 +0900)
Given the pervasiveness of lists in lisp, I don't think
"files-list" _is_ particularly more helpful, and it's certainly
more ugly.
Yes, it is more ugly. Moreover, you are right, when a word is plural,
assume it refers to a list.
What do yo think of my other suggestion, which is to drop the word
`fileset' in documentation where the reference is to a list, as in
`vc-svn-diff'?
;; emacs/lisp/vc-svn.el
(defun vc-svn-diff (files &optional oldvers newvers buffer)
"Get a difference report using SVN between two revisions of fileset FILES."
...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-21 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-21 7:26 filesets Richard Stallman
2007-10-21 12:56 ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-21 13:33 ` filesets Miles Bader
2007-10-21 14:01 ` filesets Stefan Monnier
2007-10-21 16:15 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2007-10-21 23:46 ` filesets Miles Bader
2007-10-22 9:00 ` filesets Richard Stallman
2007-10-22 12:15 ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-22 5:59 ` filesets Paul Michael Reilly
[not found] <20071021192054.AD7BE7393E@grelber.thyrsus.com>
2007-10-22 13:36 ` Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176 Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-22 14:45 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-22 19:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-22 21:52 ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
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