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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filesets
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:15:50 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1IjdSw-002KHlC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6josich.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sun,  21 Oct 2007 22:33:18 +0900)

    Given the pervasiveness of lists in lisp, I don't think
    "files-list" _is_ particularly more helpful, and it's certainly
    more ugly.

Yes, it is more ugly.  Moreover, you are right, when a word is plural,
assume it refers to a list.

What do yo think of my other suggestion, which is to drop the word
`fileset' in documentation where the reference is to a list, as in
`vc-svn-diff'?

;; emacs/lisp/vc-svn.el

  (defun vc-svn-diff (files &optional oldvers newvers buffer)
    "Get a difference report using SVN between two revisions of fileset FILES."
    ...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-21 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-21  7:26 filesets Richard Stallman
2007-10-21 12:56 ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-21 13:33   ` filesets Miles Bader
2007-10-21 14:01     ` filesets Stefan Monnier
2007-10-21 16:15     ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2007-10-21 23:46       ` filesets Miles Bader
2007-10-22  9:00   ` filesets Richard Stallman
2007-10-22 12:15     ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-22  5:59 ` filesets Paul Michael Reilly
     [not found] <20071021192054.AD7BE7393E@grelber.thyrsus.com>
2007-10-22 13:36 ` Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176 Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-22 14:45   ` Miles Bader
2007-10-22 19:01     ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-22 21:52       ` filesets Robert J. Chassell

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