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Re: lexicons
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Bastien |
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Re: lexicons |
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Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:41:44 +0200 |
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> When writing Emacs Lisp, I'm annoyed that I'm typing `gnus-summary-foo'
> all the time, but I'm happy that grep reliably finds all code that calls
> `gnus-summary-foo', and that when I'm reading code, I know immediately
> what function that's being called, context-free.
Exactly my point. Except that I'm not *that* annoyed to type long
names. (I mean, are you all seriously annoyed by this?)
With less readable context-free names, a non-CS-educated guy like me
would never have groked the basics of Emacs Lisp writing.
Oh wait! Maybe that's an argument _for_ namespaces ;)
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Bastien