From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter S Galbraith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mh-e 6.2 imminent Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:38:22 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021029173822.53DD4297C2@mixing.qc.dfo.ca> References: <200210210726.g9L7QI1l014171@gbr.newt.com> <200210231948.g9NJmdBG015635@gbr.newt.com> <200210240725.g9O7PKI11467@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87bs5d40g5.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035913401 19063 80.91.224.249 (29 Oct 2002 17:43:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186aOI-0004wi-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:42:58 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186aT0-0002U1-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:47:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186aLa-0004Lu-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:40:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186aJx-0003g9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:38:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186aJs-0003eA-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:38:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mixing.qc.dfo-mpo.gc.ca ([216.226.40.21] helo=mixing.qc.dfo.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186aJr-0003dl-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:38:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mixing.qc.dfo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mixing.qc.dfo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DD4297C2; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:38:22 -0500 (EST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: Message from Francesco Potorti` of "29 Oct 2002 18:30:34 +0100." <87bs5d40g5.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> X-Mailer: mh-e 6.1+cvs; nmh 1.0.4+dev; Emacs 21.2 X-Face: "#bYm%*(4JuXAkouMxaLz|M2dbXUFnQ"IRX)zpsiM"(B}`#|_b548$VB}5L&VIck1F#FNc' rsASk0?-/gFp2qzM>0]`Jc}Qd<8[l)N7{8%qMN~{|DS.ME.$ Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8919 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8919 [I'm cutting down the CC's. These people are surely subscribed anyway.] Francesco Potorti` wrote: > > dumb -- a `-flag' suffix doesn't really add any useful information > > I disagree. It makes it immediately clear that it is a boolean variable > or such. Very useful, in my opinion. We've made the transition to using -flag in mh-e since this thread started. But I'll admit to being worried that some-variable-flag will eventually need to hold more than nil or t, and we'll be testing for some symbol. And then the -flag name won't hold true and we'll have to rename it and break people's .emacs file. Peter