From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: kelly@prtime.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rant - Elisp terminology is deceptive
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:51:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83iofwsgre.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppa4uaay.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:28:21 +0900
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > > This "default-value" and "setq-default" dates back to the very
> > > beginning of time, tho.
> >
> > Would renaming them be acceptable, so long as the old names are
> > kept as aliases for backward compatibility? I don't think the names
> > ⌜global-value⌝, ⌜setq-global⌝, and ⌜set-global⌝ would cause any
> > confusion with any other concepts in Emacs, and they're unlikely to
> > conflict with anybody's custom code.
>
> Please don't.
Yes, please let's not. It's too late to introduce changes in that
terminology.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-24 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-23 2:59 Rant - Elisp terminology is deceptive Kelly Dean
2015-01-23 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-24 0:41 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-24 0:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-01-24 3:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-24 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-01-24 10:32 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-24 11:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-24 10:30 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-24 11:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-24 23:24 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-25 9:16 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-26 3:52 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-26 8:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-05-22 3:44 [PATCH] Desktop mode saves mark-ring too verbosely Kelly Dean
2013-11-23 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-21 12:11 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-21 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 5:43 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-22 8:20 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-23 13:20 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-23 14:09 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-24 3:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-24 23:30 ` Elisp terminology (was: Re: [PATCH] Desktop mode saves mark-ring too verbosely) Kelly Dean
2015-01-25 9:49 ` Elisp terminology David Kastrup
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