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Re: garbace collection of point-markers
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Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: garbace collection of point-markers |
Date: |
31 Jan 2003 20:51:18 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>
> > Note that in emacs, the reader does not
> > convert-case the symbols. So (not (eq 'DONT-COPY-P 'dont-copy-p))
>
> It seems customary to refer to the args of a function by uppercase
> names. Type C-h f kill-buffer RET for an example.
Exact. But as a typographical distinction. Now that we have bolds and
italics and fonts, perhaps they should just be put in bold and stay
low case. When you work with Common-Lisp in addition to emacs lisp,
it's usefull to keep the distinction in mind.
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__Pascal_Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
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Re: garbace collection of point-markers, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/01/31