From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:52:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <91db4ff0-18af-48c3-801d-7e1f7611d31e@default> References: <87mvtekydf.fsf@mithlond.arda> <7F32DB0A-6B88-479C-8504-95F41713DDB1@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450230789 25949 80.91.229.3 (16 Dec 2015 01:53:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 01:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Teemu Likonen To: Chad Brown , emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 16 02:52:56 2015 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 1a91Gy-0006O0-FQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 02:52:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a91Gx-00031N-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:52:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39002) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a91Gm-00031A-7C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:52:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a91Gi-0000uE-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:52:44 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:19900) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a91Gh-0000u0-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:52:40 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id tBG1qbAB010394 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 16 Dec 2015 01:52:38 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBG1qbMa023302 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Wed, 16 Dec 2015 01:52:37 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0008.oracle.com (abhmp0008.oracle.com [141.146.116.14]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBG1qbFb023362; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 01:52:37 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:196343 Archived-At: > > So can you give a reason why Emacs-Lisp coding conventions > > should reserve such a prefix (or any other) for users? > > Haven't heard any reason, so far. >=20 > I have seen people run into conflicts several times (over a > long time frame)... So: if you want to know if it has ever > happened: absolutely. The question I raised is not whether users have run into name conflicts but why Emacs coding conventions should reserve any given name prefix (or prefixes?) for users. Users can run into name conflicts also if they use the same "reserved" prefix `my-' (or `my/' or `my31459265358979535/' or whatever).