From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 87e422f: Beef up the Emacs string utility set a bit
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:03:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8984B3E5-1DBF-46D3-85BA-6599095F1C06@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7od99se.fsf@gnus.org>
22 dec. 2020 kl. 15.48 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> I'm not really enthusiastic about any of these names. When we're
> talking about suffixes, we're usually talking about file name suffixes
> like ".png", and this has nothing to do with that.
Suffix and prefix are (in computing and mathematics) generic terms for the trailing and leading parts of a sequence such as a string. There's nothing in the words that ties them to file names.
> These are functions
> for limiting the length of a string, and would be called
> `string-truncate' if it hadn't been for `string-truncate-left' already
> existing and doing something else, and `truncate-string-to-width' doing
> something else yet again.
>
> That is, these functions are not for picking out a part of a string, but
> for limiting the length, which makes `string-prefix' misleading as for
> what the intention is.
Naming pure functions after what they return is standard practice. How is that misleading?
(And who are we to say what the user's intention is?)
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2020-12-21 18:24 ` master 87e422f: Beef up the Emacs string utility set a bit Stefan Kangas
2020-12-21 18:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 18:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 19:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-21 20:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 20:18 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-12-21 20:38 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-12-21 21:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 21:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-12-21 21:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 20:20 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-12-21 20:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 20:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-12-21 21:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 22:13 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-12-21 22:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-22 10:41 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-12-22 14:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-22 15:03 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2020-12-22 15:24 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-21 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-21 19:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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