From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: lexicons
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:41:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iozo387r.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34nb9nkfv.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:57:24 +0200")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> When writing Emacs Lisp, I'm annoyed that I'm typing `gnus-summary-foo'
> all the time, but I'm happy that grep reliably finds all code that calls
> `gnus-summary-foo', and that when I'm reading code, I know immediately
> what function that's being called, context-free.
Exactly my point. Except that I'm not *that* annoyed to type long
names. (I mean, are you all seriously annoyed by this?)
With less readable context-free names, a non-CS-educated guy like me
would never have groked the basics of Emacs Lisp writing.
Oh wait! Maybe that's an argument _for_ namespaces ;)
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-02 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-30 21:55 lexicons Richard Stallman
2013-07-31 3:47 ` lexicons Stefan Monnier
2013-07-31 10:27 ` lexicons Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-01 21:46 ` lexicons Stefan Monnier
2013-08-01 21:57 ` lexicons Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-02 4:53 ` lexicons Teemu Likonen
2013-08-02 5:00 ` lexicons Lars Brinkhoff
2013-08-02 12:25 ` lexicons Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-02 6:41 ` Bastien [this message]
2013-08-02 13:50 ` lexicons Stefan Monnier
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