From: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 50548fd: cl-fill: Rename arguments to cl-seq and cl-item
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 22:00:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1pop8hl08.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvaz5mcl3.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 13 Aug 2016 02:06:24 -0400")
On 2016-08-13 02:06 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> cl-fill: Rename arguments to cl-seq and cl-item
>
> Why?
>
> The "cl-" prefix is for global vars. It used to be used "everywhere"
> for local vars as well because dynamic binding made the local vars
> visible in other scopes as well, but nowadays that CL uses
> lexical-binding this should not be needed any more and the tendency is
> rather to eliminate use of the "cl-" prefix for args and local vars.
>
> Stefan
Apparently the functions surrounding cl-fill use cl- prefix. so the
change appear to be more cosmetic than technical.
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-16 14:00 UTC|newest]
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2016-08-13 6:06 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 50548fd: cl-fill: Rename arguments to cl-seq and cl-item Stefan Monnier
2016-08-16 14:00 ` Leo Liu [this message]
2016-08-16 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-16 15:24 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-16 15:40 ` Drew Adams
2016-08-16 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-16 17:12 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-16 17:31 ` Robert Weiner
2016-08-16 18:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-08-17 9:35 ` Tino Calancha
2016-08-24 0:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-24 15:13 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-08-17 9:32 ` Tino Calancha
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