From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lexicons Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:41:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87iozo387r.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375475027 14428 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 20:23:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 20:23:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , Richard Stallman To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 02 22:23:48 2013 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 1V5Lt6-0001ZA-By for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:23:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47820 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5Lt5-00071l-Qr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:23:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56950) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5Lst-0006pg-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V59fE-0004Jr-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 03:20:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-we0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::236]:44170) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V593d-0007YZ-7s; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f182.google.com with SMTP id u55so198410wes.13 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:41:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date :message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=y3IVrroELvBu6E3tNVrxvqWf73VhxfARGk/kDk+8gEI=; b=syLGyAUWIjfLnpbvyPddNfoQTd7l5lvSrMfvIZsGwblVHF/jYbUiqp57E9g3vJtDsX viwkkrjcJwJMRsq83MzBsgGHfWQ9NpcGvVmiLsF/qZvKYo31ZhUUvkb0MBjZ+sx1M2/4 m90yXxVgymaXM2g1OLEuFzgvQl4SVCyZrtTPRQzM1UvEuhhYVBmeXkkPK8JAkNCyq8I/ 9cULX9K1AETu/54UjDWIzpho9wMZTtAGz20//POpod2M4qyuyvkH9YbTCQz4/H7jtD2e q+lVfwi3D//3tIijDzmJLQPZPf/Rc6sc9TZ5N9Qu+ybgclKb05y9JHr/OreVIL+tAWYK fzvQ== X-Received: by 10.194.190.201 with SMTP id gs9mr3786369wjc.82.1375425708083; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from bzg.localdomain (mar75-2-81-56-68-112.fbx.proxad.net. [81.56.68.112]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id hb2sm1207024wib.0.2013.08.01.23.41.45 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:41:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by bzg.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8E1831C2192C; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 08:41:44 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:57:24 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::236 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:162390 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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