Re: New package: resist!

[Qiantan Hong]

> On Dec 10, 2021, at 12:34 PM, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
> 
> Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> writes:
> 
>>> persist: it’s shorter, so shorter identifiers
>>> 
>>> maybe even prsist
>> Sounds good. I’ll do prsist then.
> 
> (I know this is bike-shedding, but...) What is the point of leaving out
> a single vowel?  Doesn't using a "real" or at least pronounceable word
> avoid typos and make it easier to remember?
With completion there’re no other package starting with `prs`, but
there is `perl-mode` that also starts with `per`, so `prs` save 25%
of the key strokes in this case. But maybe it doesn’t worth it.

Another factor: prsist is obviously a fake word, but persist is a real *verb*.
persist-variable-* looks stranger to me (it’s obviously grammatically incorrect)
than prsist-variable-*.

Being said that, your argument is also sound and I don’t really have a strong 
opinion on either of them. I’ll wait to see if there’s more comments. If not,
I’ll decide it using a random number generator.

Best,
Qiantan