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Re: constant `e'


From: Chong Yidong
Subject: Re: constant `e'
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:53:20 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux)

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> Single-character global variables are generally not such a great idea. In
> particular, they can easily occur as typographical errors and not be
> detected for a while.
>
> The variable `e', defined in `float-sup.el', has been around for a long
> time, but I wonder if it wouldn't be better to give it a different name in
> Emacs, because of the possibility of `e' occurring as a typo.

I vote for keeping `e' the way it is.  If it ain't broke, don't fix
it.




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