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: Renaming some functions Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:15:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: 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="124769"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 05:19:20 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 1jVRdY-000WNN-Ku for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 05:19:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59820 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRdX-00061E-My for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:19:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39778) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRaJ-0002E8-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:15:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44799) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRaI-0001u9-Pd; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:15:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRaH-000154-33; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:15:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 03 May 2020 17:21:31 -0400) 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:248785 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. ]]] > Here's my first concrete renaming proposition: > multibyte-string-p => string-multibyte-p > Any objection? The actual behavior of the function is to return t if the argument is a multibyte string, nil for any other type. The clear name for that is multibyte-string-p. string-multibyte-p implies a function that accepts only strings as arguments and returns t if the argument is multibyte. ISTR that I thought about this when I defined that function, to choose which of those two names to give it. -- 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)