From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Andreas Röhler'" <andreas.roehler@online.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Subject: RE: Rethinking count-words-region
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:11:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7257E583E25E4190908D52CFC5F5F945@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E908F40.3080905@online.de>
> think that's definitely the wrong path.
> Its very important to express with command-names what they are doing.
> If we have a command returning more than one thing, this must
> be spoken out, not done silently.
1+
No reason to gratuitously introduce confusion. Sometimes we cannot avoid it,
and names are never perfect. But this is counter-productive. Please DTRT, one
way or another.
If you define a command that does multiple things, then try to find a name that
expresses that. If the multiple things are completely different from each
other, then they might not belong together in the same command.
In this case, the command reports a certain number of counts, which is fine.
The name should reflect that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-08 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-07 15:41 Rethinking count-words-region Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 16:46 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-08 16:53 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 20:51 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 20:55 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:58 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 18:11 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-10-08 18:23 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:25 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 18:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-08 19:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-08 19:28 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 18:40 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 20:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 20:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-08 16:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:51 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 20:04 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:46 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 21:09 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 21:33 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-09 0:57 ` chad
2011-10-09 1:05 ` Drew Adams
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