From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:56:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1284118567.2190.29.camel@hamlet.localdomain> <1284125146.2190.51.camel@hamlet.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284199436 4517 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2010 10:03:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:03:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Simon South Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 11 12:03:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuMw4-000210-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:03:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51156 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuMpW-0003xs-Ve for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37275 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuMpE-0003su-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:56:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuMpA-0007Ah-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:56:48 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm1.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.1]:9649) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuMp9-0007A3-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:56:44 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost4.adm.correo ([10.20.102.125]) by IMPaqm1.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 5JFa1f01J2iL0W201MwXmY; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:56:31 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.61.39.212]) by IMPmailhost4.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 5MwV1f00F4aeRwb1kMwWsr; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:56:31 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9E66D660D2; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:56:29 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1284125146.2190.51.camel@hamlet.localdomain> (Simon South's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:25:46 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129961 Archived-At: >> From the above I gather than the language part of Delphi is basically >> the same as Free Pascal, so maybe we could rename it free-pascal.el? > Well, it's only one of several dialects Free Pascal understands (and not > the default). The actual name of the language is Object Pascal, so how > about object-pascal.el? Sounds good. Of course, we'd need to rename vars and functions inside (and add a few defalias/defvaralias to maintain some amount of backward compatibility, of course) and "object-pascal-" sounds like too long a prefix. How 'bout "opascal-"? Stefan