From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Subject: Re: Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:32:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k2of4fmz.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18664dc1-aedb-4300-ad9d-d5bc9c363bc5@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:01:18 -0800 (PST)")
>>>>> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Again, why? Why reserve any prefix for users? We haven't yet yet seen a
> reason. (This is quite different from key-binding prefixes, IMO.)
Drew has a point. How about we wait until there's some instance of the problem
in the wild that needs us to document such a convention? There's been a lot of
time for this to become an issue, and it hasn't yet.
Even then, it would only ever be a convention: we can't stop authors from
naming their symbols however they want -- except for those that are proposed
to Emacs or ELPA, where a "my-" prefix would already raise the necessary
eyebrows.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-15 20:32 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 [this message]
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
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
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