From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117987: * internals.texi (Stack-allocated Objects): Describe this feature. Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:29:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83y4t0kiu4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <542B0156.1040001@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412106162 25445 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2014 19:42:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 30 21:42:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ3Jg-00083B-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:42:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45483 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ3Jf-0000V6-Ga for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59719) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ37S-0007yM-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:30:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ37L-00021M-AO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:53720) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ37L-00020l-2X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:29:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NCQ00I00BC4ZD00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:28:35 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NCQ00FMKBFNBT30@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:28:35 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <542B0156.1040001@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174889 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:15:34 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > > Regardless of whether we use declaration-style macros, there is one > thing I'd like to change: the macro names. Yes, the names are not helpful. > These macros are not about *scope*; they are about *lifetime*. How > about the prefix "auto_" (from the C keyword 'auto') rather than > "scope_"? Or maybe "block_" because it's block lifetime? ("auto_" > is shorter....) Or maybe "alloca_*", as in alloca_string, alloca_list1, etc.