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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



  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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