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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Nathanael Schweers <NSchweers@mailbox.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Referencing variables beginning with an asterisk in docstrings broken?
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:32:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvshto2z6k.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shtoeag6.fsf@reisefreund.localdomain> (Nathanael Schweers's message of "Mon, 29 Aug 2016 01:32:41 +0200")

> I did both.  I also filed a bug, but it seems that this is because of
> some heuristic to prevent too many false positives.  I guess I’ll either
> change my naming, or just live with it.  Currently I use
> *prefix/public-var*, but I guess prefix/*public-var* might be even
> better.

the prefix/ already says that it's a global/dynamic var, so the
asterisks are just added noise at that point.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-25 14:54 Referencing variables beginning with an asterisk in docstrings broken? Nathanael Schweers
2016-08-28  1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-28 15:18   ` GDB GUD Variable Buffer Augusto Fraga Giachero
2016-08-28 15:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-28 16:35       ` Augusto Fraga Giachero
2016-08-28 16:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-28 23:32   ` Referencing variables beginning with an asterisk in docstrings broken? Nathanael Schweers
2016-08-29  0:32     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-25 13:56 Nathanael Schweers
2016-08-25 20:19 ` Drew Adams

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