From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 22:27:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> <87v9ljo5d0.fsf@bernoul.li> <87ftcnxu5m.fsf@bernoul.li> <83y2qezlpd.fsf@gnu.org> <83tv12zjx1.fsf@gnu.org> <837dxyz83p.fsf@gnu.org> <978f970b-b5c2-bd83-39da-f632d069d7d5@yandex.ru> <98ab19cf-680b-9cd2-7c42-89dd0b2f470a@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="124337"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, adam@alphapapa.net, eliz@gnu.org, kyle@kyleam.com To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 04:28:36 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhtL-000WEQ-Rj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 04:28:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47562 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhtK-0000sK-Te for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37874) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhsd-0007N3-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:27:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhsb-0006il-O9; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhsZ-0006mV-Rb; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:27:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:26:07 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248372 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > If we decide the answer is yes (as advised by the coding conventions) we > could start by simply aliasing the existing API that does not follow this > convention. That'd mean `copy-alist` would be aliased as `alist-copy`, do > you think people would be strongly against this? I think there is no need to rigidly put the crucial word 'alist' at the start of the name. Just having 'alist' in the function name makes it easy enough to find that function. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)