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Re: [ELPA] New package: transient


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 15:14:00 +0300

> From: 조성빈 <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 21:09:11 +0900
> Cc: Philippe Vaucher <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>  address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > For that, you should definitely read the manual, not just look at the
> > list of APIs.  A list of the APIs will not tell enough, especially if
> > you are coming to a language that has a long history, with such
> > idiosyncratic names as cdr and assq.
> 
> Isn’t this the problem that the proposal is trying to address? So that people 
> can get more info from the function names without needing to know all of the 
> idiosyncrasies.

Yes.  But as I wrote earlier, I think the hopes that names will solve
this problem are overrated.



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