From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:26:21 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1f0c30d-0155-46fb-8d25-da235da89bce@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7F32DB0A-6B88-479C-8504-95F41713DDB1@gmail.com>
> >> It seems to me that Emacs users often use "my-" prefix or person's
> >> initials (like "tl-" or "tl/") as prefix when writing their private
> >> extensions and configuration.
> >
> > Yes. As in any other language.
>
> Which language would that be?
Ok, you got me.
So can you give a reason why Emacs-Lisp coding conventions
should reserve such a prefix (or any other) for users?
Haven't heard any reason, so far.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-16 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-13 18:16 Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users Teemu Likonen
2015-12-13 18:32 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-13 18:56 ` Teemu Likonen
2015-12-14 20:31 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-15 18:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-12-15 18:29 ` John Yates
2015-12-15 19:01 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-15 20:32 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-16 3:12 ` Evans Winner
2015-12-16 6:41 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-16 0:16 ` David Reitter
2015-12-16 1:26 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-12-16 1:39 ` Chad Brown
2015-12-16 1:52 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-16 4:41 ` Chad Brown
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2022-07-10 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-10 16:03 ` Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users Teemu Likonen
2022-07-10 16:59 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-10 18:11 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-07-10 19:20 ` Tim Cross
2022-07-11 3:17 ` Richard Stallman
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