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Re: The purpose of makunbound


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: The purpose of makunbound
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:45:09 +0900

Richard Stallman writes:

 >   > Ok, great! Since the term ‟void” is fine, let's use ⌜Qvoid⌝ for
 >   > the corresponding constant in the source code.
 > 
 > I won't argue against it.

I will.

It's a gratuitous change which pleases at most one person in the whole
world, while making working with the code a little bit more difficult
for people who have code bases containing the old name.  (Of course
I'm thinking of XEmacs, but the same reason applies to anybody with a
branch planned for merger in the future.)

OTOH, "Qunbound" corresponds to perfectly good English usage.

@Stefan: Please refuse to make this change.




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