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Re: doc string of make-char-internal
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Pavel Janík |
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Re: doc string of make-char-internal |
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Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:23:11 +0100 |
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From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:45:46 -0600 (MDT)
> Yes, but after some time, we will decide, that this string is not that
we
> want. We will change all occurrences of it. Hmm. By using some other
> mechanism of "marking something for internal use" we can generalize it
in
> one place (maybe we can do other thing when showing the doc-string for
> internal function in the future). This is good as I have learned in
school.
>
> I think that such design heuristics are worth paying attention to, but
> shouldn't be followed rigidly.
>
> So if you make a specific proposal, I will think about it.
I have thought about it for some time, and today I was enlightened ;-) Some
functions/variables in the sources have names internal-*. Almost all of
them are internal/for internal use only. Do you think we can say: "If the
function name begins with internal-, it is for internal use only."?
--
Pavel Janík
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Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del was handled in the BIOS,
I found that there aren't any.
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