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: Mon, 04 May 2020 19:00:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83wo5rn108.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> <838sicw4do.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhaqu89z.fsf@gnu.org> <83sggiu2p9.fsf@gnu.org> <83r1w2s9wi.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9leqmss.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhapoz63.fsf@gnu.org> <0a13f7e1-61c7-1e78-22bc-a27c15c269e7@yandex.ru> <83h7wxotix.fsf@gnu.org> <18096f9a-c617-f37b-cdaa-1a6198db2e1c@yandex.ru> <83a72porka.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfm7ok1j.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="16916"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 18:21:42 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 1jVdqg-0004Ji-FF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 18:21:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50750 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVdqf-0004Wx-Gg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 12:21:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38158) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVdWX-0001z2-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 12:00:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVdWW-00065S-3F; Mon, 04 May 2020 12:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2594 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVdWN-0002so-SP; Mon, 04 May 2020 12:00:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 04 May 2020 11:23:25 -0400) 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:248858 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: João Távora , > dgutov@yandex.ru, > tomas@tuxteam.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 11:23:25 -0400 > > > lgstring-char is an internal function, why do we care about its name? > > That's a surprising answer: Imagine the author of `markdown-mode` were > to define a function `lgstring-foo`. We don't disallow it, but we > strongly discourage such things. How is this different from the author of foo-mode defining a function named copy-alist? Every language has a set of reserved names. In some languages, those names are well-defined, in others they are less well-defined. But they are reserved nonetheless, and defining a function that already exists without meaning to overload it is not a good idea. (And anyway, how is this relevant to the issue at point? Don't we have enough of the deluge without adding tangents?)