From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: argument names for define-obsolete-*-alias Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:38:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17068.54987.233487.611012@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118706676 507 80.91.229.2 (13 Jun 2005 23:51:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:51:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 14 01:51:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dhyhl-0001Hp-SC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:50:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dhymf-0003De-50 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dhyhi-0001ZM-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:50:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dhyha-0001W4-7R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:50:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhyhY-0001RZ-RA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DhyXf-00076X-2L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DhyVx-0003Dr-A7; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:38:45 -0400 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-reply-to: <17068.54987.233487.611012@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:43:55 +1200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38766 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38766 On a related note, I find the arguments for defvaralias and defalias more confusing than those for define-obsolete-*-alias. defalias seems clear to me, but defvaralias is unclear. For defvaralias, I suggest the names NEW-ALIAS and BASE-VARIABLE. If using similar names in defalias would make it clearer to some people, we could change that too--it costs little to change this.