From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The purpose of makunbound Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:45:09 +0900 Message-ID: <877fvbg6my.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424497555 20621 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2015 05:45:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 05:45:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kelly Dean , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 21 06:45:45 2015 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 1YP2sr-0007gL-ES for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:45:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP2sq-0003X1-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:45:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP2sZ-0003Wu-0g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:45:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP2sV-0006he-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:59911) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YP2sV-0006fz-Iv; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:45:23 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F3121C38AD; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:45:09 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 277B41A26E3; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:45:09 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 83e5c3cd6be6 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:183344 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > Ok, great! Since the term =E2=80=9Fvoid=E2=80=9D is fine, let's use = =E2=8C=9CQvoid=E2=8C=9D for > > the corresponding constant in the source code. >=20 > I won't argue against it. I will. It's a gratuitous change which pleases at most one person in the whole world, while making working with the code a little bit more difficult for people who have code bases containing the old name. (Of course I'm thinking of XEmacs, but the same reason applies to anybody with a branch planned for merger in the future.) OTOH, "Qunbound" corresponds to perfectly good English usage. @Stefan: Please refuse to make this change.