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: reveal-filename Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:46:16 +0900 Message-ID: <87zjvnu3yf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <83ppwor9li.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwrpujr4.fsf@gnu.org> <877gisvocj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83ip2cuwum.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369190799 31309 80.91.229.3 (22 May 2013 02:46:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 02:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 22 04:46:38 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 1Uez4Y-0000lI-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 May 2013 04:46:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41807 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uez4X-0007kx-K1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 22:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56289) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uez4Q-0007jV-NW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 22:46:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uez4L-0005i6-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 22:46:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:48915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uez4F-0005fa-Tr; Tue, 21 May 2013 22:46:20 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0069E970208; Wed, 22 May 2013 11:46:17 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 881481A4FE7; Wed, 22 May 2013 11:46:16 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <83ip2cuwum.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:159724 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > How about "Produce a canonical ..." or "Produce a normalized ..."? > > The problem is, it can be neither. If the argument is just "foo", it > will be returned unchanged. Well, yes, that's what "normalize" and "canonicalize" mean. If you hand one of those operations an object already in normal form, it won't be changed. If calling doing nothing "Produce" bothers you, s/Produce/Return/.