From: Evans Winner <ego111@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:12:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86mvtbf5n3.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k2of4fmz.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:32:20 -0800")
John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:
Drew has a point. How about we wait until there's some
instance of the problem in the wild that needs us to
document such a convention? There's been a lot of time
for this to become an issue, and it hasn't yet.
For what it's worth, it's happened to me, but a long time
ago and I don't remember what function name I stepped on.
If it's happened to me, I would guess it's happened to other
people. Creating a name clash isn't a bug in Emacs, so why
would I (or anyone else) report it? So if it's happening,
it might not be something that would come up on the radar
here very often. I finally discovered what I'd done and
jsut renamed my function.
Short of giving Elisp a package system like Common Lisp, it
seems that the solution is just to make sure your personal
prefix is complex enough that it is unlikely to be
duplicated in other people's code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-16 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-13 18:16 Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users Teemu Likonen
2015-12-13 18:32 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-13 18:56 ` Teemu Likonen
2015-12-14 20:31 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-15 18:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-12-15 18:29 ` John Yates
2015-12-15 19:01 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-15 20:32 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-16 3:12 ` Evans Winner [this message]
2015-12-16 6:41 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-16 0:16 ` David Reitter
2015-12-16 1:26 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-16 1:39 ` Chad Brown
2015-12-16 1:52 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-16 4:41 ` Chad Brown
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-07-10 3:39 Special Event: Davin reveals his own personal additions to Emacs Davin Pearson
2022-07-10 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-10 16:03 ` Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users Teemu Likonen
2022-07-10 16:59 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-10 18:11 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-07-10 19:20 ` Tim Cross
2022-07-11 3:17 ` Richard Stallman
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