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: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:53:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83zhaoo2j1.fsf@gnu.org> <83k11rojyi.fsf@gnu.org> 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="14465"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 05 04:54:35 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 1jVnj8-0003eN-8B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 04:54:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52168 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnj7-0003PT-8p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39530) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVniD-00029H-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:53:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45453) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVniD-0006HS-6N; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:53:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVniA-0006Hf-RM; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:53:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 04 May 2020 13:37:49 -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:248934 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. ]]] >> >> multibyte-string-p => string-multibyte-p > > However, based on what Richard wrote, maybe we should have both of > > these functions ;-) I did not suggest that we should define both names. What I said was that each name goes naturally with a different meaning. I think implementing either one of them is sufficient. -- 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)