From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 15:14:00 +0300 Message-ID: <838siattyv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ftcitwcr.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="120271"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philippe.vaucher@gmail.com, tomas@tuxteam.de, rms@gnu.org, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?B?7KGw7ISx67mI?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 14:15:05 2020 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 1jUr2v-000VBz-1C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 14:15:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36156 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUr2u-0004Ht-44 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 08:15:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57046) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUr2R-0003sc-AQ for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 08:14:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56102) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUr2Q-0007FE-Sq; Sat, 02 May 2020 08:14:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4681 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUr21-000811-0I; Sat, 02 May 2020 08:14:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from =?utf-8?B?7KGw7ISx67mI?= on Sat, 2 May 2020 21:09:11 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:248415 Archived-At: > From: 조성빈 > Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 21:09:11 +0900 > Cc: Philippe Vaucher , tomas@tuxteam.de, > rms@gnu.org, Emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > For that, you should definitely read the manual, not just look at the > > list of APIs. A list of the APIs will not tell enough, especially if > > you are coming to a language that has a long history, with such > > idiosyncratic names as cdr and assq. > > Isn’t this the problem that the proposal is trying to address? So that people can get more info from the function names without needing to know all of the idiosyncrasies. Yes. But as I wrote earlier, I think the hopes that names will solve this problem are overrated.