From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Naming conventions for defining macros Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:38:48 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424792700 13593 80.91.229.3 (24 Feb 2015 15:45:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:45:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 16:45:00 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1YQHfN-0007BH-4K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:44:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49954 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQHfM-0001W8-LQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:44:56 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="30172"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18FrhtcjPBYFM+ntb6w+6aJ" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WmT1RYGByvudMC5HbmnVhodNzp4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210593 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102870 Archived-At: In article , Philipp Stephani wrote: > Hi, > > the manual page about coding conventions says: "Constructs that define a > function or variable should be macros, not functions, and their names > should start with `define-'." This recommendation is at odds with the usual > recommendation to prefix all non-local names with the package name and > doesn't seem to be widely followed by either Emacs (e.g. ert-deftest, > cl-defstruct) or popular third-party packages (e.g. magit-define-command). > Should we get rid of this recommendation? It amounts to special-casing a > certain class of names without much benefit. I think you're expected to combine the conventions, hence magit-define-command. It obeys the recommendation to use the package name prefix, then the define- prefix. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***