From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:31:07 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87mvtekydf.fsf@mithlond.arda> <87egeqkwj2.fsf@mithlond.arda> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450125125 28465 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2015 20:32:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:32:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Teemu Likonen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 14 21:31:58 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1a8Zmj-00068K-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:31:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8Zmd-0003Fi-Ow for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:31:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51698) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8Zm7-0002eA-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:31:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8Zm3-0000Cf-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:31:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pf0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::22d]:35401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8Zm3-0000Ca-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:31:11 -0500 Original-Received: by pff63 with SMTP id 63so16954078pff.2 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:31:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id:references :user-agent:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type; bh=yECDiGvrFp3LeFFSyqvUtCiEIfJnF7LwycWiWw57xw4=; b=gu45Avhfjgm3sX8wTRn7x3f92nEKUHMchfGuAY7WUiQGG2jookcY8KCgvyezYAZtXZ q6TvVARbBhPmniwVLJgmtt0Ve5SshsbbxwavoVa3y0KDoVby7wGYBJqF9faiM/JwFaks ruzKdJ6ghRmFlZc2XTpTUFJT52s+EPeUHRHzyd99ai19ZNC/zt/CpwG9mZJ4xAM5eUrH JNeYXykSp4ln8UTwosjdFMmS8iMqCrG6r6G9UZLYKh1LgwoWX5V+tE8QOZk3NuYv+bPQ 0KIca6778yewLAaUmYovCfOtttoVyUxu+h2HFlH351Y8ZLlDus29ZmQl5xHdvh+ZL9KQ chkg== X-Received: by 10.98.16.76 with SMTP id y73mr38716228pfi.151.1450125070864; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:31:10 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Vulcan.local (76-234-68-79.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net. [76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i70sm20192456pfj.32.2015.12.14.12.31.09 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:31:09 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 46F67114FFB54; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:31:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87egeqkwj2.fsf@mithlond.arda> (Teemu Likonen's message of "Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:56:17 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: Teemu Likonen , Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c00::22d X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196265 Archived-At: >>>>> Teemu Likonen writes: > I have had zero problems but it's also near-zero effort to decide a prefix, > document it and obey it. And yes, it's for avoiding name conflicts: so that > user's configuration won't harm future Emacs functionality, nor the other > way around. > But it's just a suggestion. I'm not going to have a month long > discussion about this. So just ignore it. :-) I appreciate the effort, Teemu, but I don't think it needs explicit documentation. The only package that could conceivably use "my-" as a prefix would have to be called "my", otherwise it's in violation of other Emacs coding standards. At that point, a user who uses such a "my" package can either choose not to (to preserve the "my-" namespace for themselves), or request that the author change its name. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2