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- From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
- Subject: Prefix in Emacs Lisp "packages"
- Message-ID: <9208190614.AA01268@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:14:06 GMT
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- I decided long ago that there was no advantage in using `:'
- as a delimiter in symbol names.
-
- There is no formal concept of packages in Emacs Lisp.
- We use naming conventions to indicate which functions
- and variables belong together. Often the convention is
- a common prefix, but it is not required to be a prefix
- all the time.
-
- The character `:' has no advantage over the character `-'.
- And it makes names look less uniform.
-
- To help keep GNU Emacs coherent, please don't use `:' as
- a delimiter in symbol names when you write Emacs Lisp code
- that might possibly ever be useful to distribute.
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